Cygwin under Window allows you to use the same scripts on both platforms. (So far I have yet to see anyone port batch files to unix). In fact having written system build scripts using batch files on NT and Win95, I have found they are not portable between these two Microsoft platforms. Bash however, works the same on both.
Cygwin allows you to put drive letters in your pathnames. You can even use spaces, you just have to quote them or use a backslash.
Batch files are certainly incomplete. The most irritating omissions are: . The inability to set an environment variable from the output of a program. (OK on NT you can do it using the/F option to the FOR loop, but it's hardly obvious) . Wildcard expansion is upto each app, and they don't do it consistantly.
If you want to jump to C. Then gcc comes with Cygwin at no extra charge. You see it is more than a command line shell. Cygwin comes with a whole set of scripting tools (grep, awk, vi, find, make, diff, perl, tar, gzip, and lots of others)
Listing files in the ls format cool? Maybe. Don't care. It just gets the jobs done.
Sorry but when maintaining the same system across a dozen different platforms, I find it easier to take the same old tools with me. Next time I'm in Rome I'll be taking a box of tea bags.
I would like to see any new standard for markup languages include security features. On a quick scan through I see no mention of it.
When a web based application is displaying content aquired from other sources a great deal of effort is required to render the content harmless. In this article on kuro5hin it details the efforts by Yahoo to ensure that malicious javascript is not rendered in web mail.
I think the markup language should allow the page designer to disable potentially dangerous features such as javascript within particular frames (or other elements), but still allow it to work within the page as a whole.
$ echo "Every now and then, you get what you don't pay for;" | \ > sed -e 's/\(^\)\(.*\)$/\1Open Source\2/' Open SourceEvery now and then, you get what you don't pay for;
Or in vi:
iEvery now and then, you get what you don't pay for;^[0aOpen Source^[
Which gives:
EOpen Sourcevery now and then, you get what you don't pay for;
Looking at the slides, the climber appears to be powered from the ground by laser. Maybe they plan to power the elevator in the same manner. Hopefully it would not fry the contents or melt the cable.
Share and Enjoy, Share and Enjoy,
Journey through life with a plastic boy
Or girl by your side, let your pal be your guide,
And when it breaks down or starts to annoy,
Or grinds when it moves and gives you no joy
Cos it's eaten your hat or had sex with your cat,
Bled oil on your floor or ripped off your door,
And you get to the point you can't stand any more,
Bring it to us, we won't give a fig. We'll tell you
'Go stick your head in a Pig'
But surely we cannot compare even the mighty KPMG with the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Department.
It does. However, things that run in the POSIX subsystem are unable to use those nice POSIX calls to access anything that is outside the POSIX subsystem. This typically includes everything, even bog standard features of the OS. When I was trying to port a UNIX app to NT some years ago, POSIX did not include some basic things like signals and common socket stuff, it certainly didn't give you any graphics. Consequently the POSIX subsystem at that time didn't provide them or even the WIN32 equivalent.
There was a rumour that MS didn't want anyone to use the POSIX subsystem. It seemed to be there simply to get a tick against the "Does it comply with the POSIX standard?" checkbox on corporate/governmental buyers requirements list. Once the sale is made, the POSIX subsystem is of no further use.
We eventually ported to the WIN32 subsystem using a toolkit called NuTCracker. It sort-of worked, but we eventually ended up doing a native port by abstracting out all the OS sprecific stuff.
There are other options to be considered. There is UWIN - http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/. There is also the CYGWIN stuff (which seems to include OpenGL) which you can get at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ (you might also need the extra CYGIPC at http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/cygipc/ to do ipc).
So far everyones contribution is about slapping down the abusers. Another approach is to concertrate on promoting users that add value to your site. People that have had their accounts a long time, made useful posts and haven't consistently got moderated down.
Giving these guys a quick route through the posting process will allow you to slow down new comers to a crawl. If users have been reading your site for sometime then they probably have something useful to say, and it is probably worth speeding them up. I read slashdot for ages before starting to post (not that what I post is always useful).
If a newcomer does have something they really want to say, then they would be prepared to go through the hoops. Perhaps going through the password by email cycle for every post, or answering a selection of blindingly obvious but difficult to automate random questions (e.g. What colour is grass? red, green or blue).
Just what I was about to suggest. To reduce processing on your box and the number of items downloaded you could use one jpeg for the @ and another for dot. Maybe using others to replace.com and.co.uk etc. as these tell tales.
... or rather declare objective achieved and run away.
This particular powder keg (Afghanistan/Pakistan/India/Nukes/Iran/Iraq) should produce some pretty fireworks.
Reward Pakistan's cooperation by asking to much and destablising their fragile system of government. Pro-Taliban elements should then be able to take over, and sell those nuclear bombs to Baghdad.
Who will attack who at that point? Who knows. India/Pakistan, or Iran/Iraq, or both.
I fear that at this time violence will be the first resort, because pride determines that some one must pay for September 11th.
... some physicists believe that the information must not actually vanish, that it is imprinted somehow in the pattern of radiation emitted during evaporation.
Let's face it, they are on something.
Next they will want to use it as a teleport. Any volunteers?
You don't need an industry wide standard. You just need to boot off a Windows CD.
If people want to try an alternative OS and don't want to muck up their hard drive to install something they might not want to keep, then booting from a CD is the best non-invasive option. And you can bet your life that the people looking for an alternative are running Windows.
This looks like a cleaned up C++ with some features from Java (garbage collection, unicode strings).
I see the synchronize keyword but not see an explaination of threading. Getting the syntax for threading sorted out has been a big plus for Java.
One of the big benefits of Java over C, is the reliable presence of a standard
library that includes so much useful stuff (Hashtable, BigDecimal, etc.).
Where does D stand in this respect?
I like the garbage collection in Java. A lot of the time this is fine, but
sometimes it would be useful to be able to explicitly delete objects just as the D spec
suggests. However, I would also like an optional method to be
called when the reference count hits zero, so I can close files or shut down servers etc.. I see D has destructors, but like
the finalize method on Java objects it becomes next to useless as there is no
guarantee that it will be called any time soon (if at all).
When building publish and subscribe objects it would be useful to have access to the reference count, or even have an optional
method that is called when it changes.
I have yet to use a language that supports delegation without the
programmer putting a load of stubs into the delegating class. D, it seems, will be
no exception.
I wish Walter luck. It's a great idea. Java is still pretty slow and C++ is still pretty ugly, but he has got a lot to catch up.
I'm not sure how the laws covering newspapers apply to the web, but some years ago when I was working on UK newspaper systems, a newspaper was not allowed to have more than a certain percentage of its column inches turned over to advertising (I think it might have been 50% but I don't really remember). It could only exceed this if it was a freesheet, when the law did not apply.
Consequently newspapers might take any old crap as editorial, use 2 inch high banner headlines, put in an unnecessary amount of pictures, paste in parts of old stories, put in horoscopes and other such nonsense, just to keep up with the amount of advertising sold. The best trick was to give away a 'free' magazine with the paper, which could then carry any amount of ads.
This tradition is probably why Roblimo doesn't like mixing ads and content.
I don't know if this law still applies (I don't read newspapers), or even if it could apply to a web site (that charges a subscription?), but if it did then making content into ads just might be illegal.
I like the idea of being able to choose a passport compatible supplier who keeps cross site data.
I will not use it myself, but it will allow me to set up a useful (and hopefully lucrative) service. People will register with my site, and my site will be a single point of contact that will direct all those e-commerce sites to the passport site that the user has choosen.
Jar, spoon! Jar, spoon! Spoon, jar! - Tommy Cooper
... twice a honeypot has been compromised without Honeynet administrators alerted in real time. We did not detect the successful attack until the honeypots initiated outbound connections.
I wonder if this wasn't just a toshiba laptop that phoned home.
Slashdot Mirror
I want one to fry the engine management in the cars that keep screaming past my house.
When my desk gets covered in paper I wounld'nt have to dig my keyboard out. I could just keeping on working over the top of it.
Bah. Might be a bit tricky to use on the bus.
Cygwin under Window allows you to use the same scripts on both platforms. (So far I have yet to see anyone port batch files to unix). In fact having written system build scripts using batch files on NT and Win95, I have found they are not portable between these two Microsoft platforms. Bash however, works the same on both.
/F option to the FOR loop, but it's hardly obvious)
Cygwin allows you to put drive letters in your pathnames. You can even use spaces, you just have to quote them or use a backslash.
Batch files are certainly incomplete. The most irritating omissions are:
. The inability to set an environment variable from the output of a program. (OK on NT you can do it using the
. Wildcard expansion is upto each app, and they don't do it consistantly.
If you want to jump to C. Then gcc comes with Cygwin at no extra charge. You see it is more than a command line shell. Cygwin comes with a whole set of scripting tools (grep, awk, vi, find, make, diff, perl, tar, gzip, and lots of others)
Listing files in the ls format cool? Maybe. Don't care. It just gets the jobs done.
Sorry but when maintaining the same system across a dozen different platforms, I find it easier to take the same old tools with me. Next time I'm in Rome I'll be taking a box of tea bags.
When a web based application is displaying content aquired from other sources a great deal of effort is required to render the content harmless. In this article on kuro5hin it details the efforts by Yahoo to ensure that malicious javascript is not rendered in web mail.
I think the markup language should allow the page designer to disable potentially dangerous features such as javascript within particular frames (or other elements), but still allow it to work within the page as a whole.
<IFRAME SECURITY="scripting=no,images=yes" SRC="...">
</IFRAME>
Then only the Americans would be allowed to make one.
... you could be in a shrinking pool of expertise. Hmm, could be worth your while holding of and getting hired by the opposition.
I hate to act like the Grammar Nazi, but I can't help feeling the word you wanted was
It's always worth checking with www.dictionary.com
So Microsoft is smart and they have learned their lesson?
The situation is:
They did it, they got away with it.
They did it again, they got away with it again.
What you do you think they have learned from that?
Looking at the slides, the climber appears to be powered from the ground by laser. Maybe they plan to power the elevator in the same manner. Hopefully it would not fry the contents or melt the cable.
I think I know that song. It went ...
Share and Enjoy, Share and Enjoy,
Journey through life with a plastic boy
Or girl by your side, let your pal be your guide,
And when it breaks down or starts to annoy,
Or grinds when it moves and gives you no joy
Cos it's eaten your hat or had sex with your cat,
Bled oil on your floor or ripped off your door,
And you get to the point you can't stand any more,
Bring it to us, we won't give a fig. We'll tell you
'Go stick your head in a Pig'
But surely we cannot compare even the mighty KPMG with the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Department.
In the UK we have Parcel Force. I don't know if they break things. Of the three parcels I have sent with them, only one arrived (8 months later).
A friend who worked in the local depot told me that losses are not unusual. People's 'last remains' seem to be a speciality.
There was a rumour that MS didn't want anyone to use the POSIX subsystem. It seemed to be there simply to get a tick against the "Does it comply with the POSIX standard?" checkbox on corporate/governmental buyers requirements list. Once the sale is made, the POSIX subsystem is of no further use.
We eventually ported to the WIN32 subsystem using a toolkit called NuTCracker. It sort-of worked, but we eventually ended up doing a native port by abstracting out all the OS sprecific stuff.
There are other options to be considered. There is UWIN - http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/. There is also the CYGWIN stuff (which seems to include OpenGL) which you can get at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ (you might also need the extra CYGIPC at http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutil
Put on an audio track that says: "Put this in your computer! Dummy."
Giving these guys a quick route through the posting process will allow you to slow down new comers to a crawl. If users have been reading your site for sometime then they probably have something useful to say, and it is probably worth speeding them up. I read slashdot for ages before starting to post (not that what I post is always useful).
If a newcomer does have something they really want to say, then they would be prepared to go through the hoops. Perhaps going through the password by email cycle for every post, or answering a selection of blindingly obvious but difficult to automate random questions (e.g. What colour is grass? red, green or blue).
Just what I was about to suggest. To reduce processing on your box and the number of items downloaded you could use one jpeg for the @ and another for dot. Maybe using others to replace .com and .co.uk etc. as these tell tales.
I wonder why it has to use lasers or microwaves (v. dangerous). Why don't they just run a wire up to it?
... or rather declare objective achieved and run away.
This particular powder keg (Afghanistan/Pakistan/India/Nukes/Iran/Iraq) should produce some pretty fireworks.
Reward Pakistan's cooperation by asking to much and destablising their fragile system of government. Pro-Taliban elements should then be able to take over, and sell those nuclear bombs to Baghdad.
Who will attack who at that point? Who knows. India/Pakistan, or Iran/Iraq, or both.
I fear that at this time violence will be the first resort, because pride determines that some one must pay for September 11th.
Let's face it, they are on something.
Next they will want to use it as a teleport. Any volunteers?
If people want to try an alternative OS and don't want to muck up their hard drive to install something they might not want to keep, then booting from a CD is the best non-invasive option. And you can bet your life that the people looking for an alternative are running Windows.
I see the synchronize keyword but not see an explaination of threading. Getting the syntax for threading sorted out has been a big plus for Java.
One of the big benefits of Java over C, is the reliable presence of a standard library that includes so much useful stuff (Hashtable, BigDecimal, etc.). Where does D stand in this respect?
I like the garbage collection in Java. A lot of the time this is fine, but sometimes it would be useful to be able to explicitly delete objects just as the D spec suggests. However, I would also like an optional method to be called when the reference count hits zero, so I can close files or shut down servers etc.. I see D has destructors, but like the finalize method on Java objects it becomes next to useless as there is no guarantee that it will be called any time soon (if at all). When building publish and subscribe objects it would be useful to have access to the reference count, or even have an optional method that is called when it changes.
I have yet to use a language that supports delegation without the programmer putting a load of stubs into the delegating class. D, it seems, will be no exception.
I wish Walter luck. It's a great idea. Java is still pretty slow and C++ is still pretty ugly, but he has got a lot to catch up.
Consequently newspapers might take any old crap as editorial, use 2 inch high banner headlines, put in an unnecessary amount of pictures, paste in parts of old stories, put in horoscopes and other such nonsense, just to keep up with the amount of advertising sold. The best trick was to give away a 'free' magazine with the paper, which could then carry any amount of ads.
This tradition is probably why Roblimo doesn't like mixing ads and content.
I don't know if this law still applies (I don't read newspapers), or even if it could apply to a web site (that charges a subscription?), but if it did then making content into ads just might be illegal.
But probably not. ... Forget I mentioned it.
You mean a little dialog pops up and asks you if you want the pop up?
Double the irritation.
I will not use it myself, but it will allow me to set up a useful (and hopefully lucrative) service. People will register with my site, and my site will be a single point of contact that will direct all those e-commerce sites to the passport site that the user has choosen.
Jar, spoon! Jar, spoon! Spoon, jar! - Tommy Cooper