You joke, however, contrary to what you read on here, the print media industry is thriving. A lot of people prefer the newspaper format and brick-and-mortar companies prefer brick-and-mortar advertising (think supermarket chains et al., they have no reason to advertise on the internet) so they shell out thousands in advertising. As a geek working in the industry, I wish Rupert would throw himself under a bus as he's giving us a bad name.
"Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix."
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
"Your problem has nothing to do with git, and everything to do with emacs. And then you have the _gall_ to talk about "unix design" and not gumming programs together, when you yourself use the most gummed-up piece of absolute sh*t there is!"
"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'."
"My personal opinion of Mach is not very high. Frankly, it's a piece of crap. It contains all the design mistakes you can make, and even managed to make up a few of its own."
"In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people."
"Personally, I'm _not_ interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid."
Give it another hour... The absence of at least one of Torvalds, Stallman, ESR, Larry Wall, or even just a pro-OSS person we have actually heard of will have people screaming (perhaps rightfully so).
It was to demonstrate that there were holes being actively exploited in Drupal in the past. I knew there were holes because I remembered seeing the Morfeus scanner (as I mentioned above) guessing various webapp-related URI's in my logs, but as Bozovision pointed out above I must have had Drupal confused with Joomla (both PHP, both weird names).
Drupal really has not been known for its security in the past; try Googling "drupal exploit", and I'm sure most webmasters are familiar with the "morfeus fucking scanner" user-agent that appears in logs from time to time checking for (among other things) active Drupal-related links (admin pages etc) to exploit.
Maybe is has improved since the last time I paid any attention to it, I assume is would have been given an audit before being deployed on a Government website? That would be great for open source; "Open Source Software hacked, Govt website replaced with Goatse, Microsoft says 'I told you so'"... It would be a media-fueled nightmare of FOSS if this goes wrong.
You make robots to help the elderly so you name your company after one that built robots which destroy most of humanity and declare war on what is left... "Clever" probably isn't the term you were looking for.
A friend had a problem with a CD burner app (Nero I think?) and asked me to take a look at it (they weren't too tech savvy). So I took a look and Googled the error and found that it was a problem with a registry key that would screw randomly. The fix was to delete it and if the error came back the fix was to change it to a specific value (which would cause nagging warnings but not make the program fail outright, so deleting it first was the better solution). So when I had fixed it I told him offhandedly, not expecting him to understand, that it was a problem with the registry and if it happens again to give me a call. So a week later he calls and says it had the same problem but I didn't need to come round because he had found a registry cleaner, for cheap, only $39.95... I never mention the word "registry" to non-tech people now.
Doesn't it seem a little odd that the company that is competing for market shares in the web browser area would create a addon for a competing company?
The TFA makes a reference to Mozilla's new Plugin checker. I just went there with JavaScript disabled and...
You have JavaScript disabled or are using a browser without JavaScript. This Plugin Check page does not work without the awesome power of JavaScript. Please enable this Content Preference and reload the page.
Or disable all your plugins and keep JavaScript disabled... you'd be in good company, that's how RMS rolls.
There are a number of https websites I have used/use that (for whatever reason) don't automatically redirect if you simply type the web-address. Hence you have to manually type "https://..." to get the secure site.
I use MySQL exclusively and it would nice if Oracle were given a shot at supporting MySQL. Even if they do try and kill it to gain leverage for their own database, there's always MariaDB (a MySQL fork by Monty Widenius, the original creator of MySQL).
Lynx is cheating. You should have to Telnet to the webserver, manually construct the HTTP headers to request the page and then do the same to make a POST request to select the browser you want. Just think how peaceful the Internet would be...
What do you mean "this day and age"? France have been breaking rules for years and then claiming the law doesn't apply to them. Nothing has changed in France's politics in over 20 years I see.
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You joke, however, contrary to what you read on here, the print media industry is thriving. A lot of people prefer the newspaper format and brick-and-mortar companies prefer brick-and-mortar advertising (think supermarket chains et al., they have no reason to advertise on the internet) so they shell out thousands in advertising. As a geek working in the industry, I wish Rupert would throw himself under a bus as he's giving us a bad name.
This is hardly news. Get back to us when they can move Emacs or Vim-sized objects.
"Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix."
...
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
"Your problem has nothing to do with git, and everything to do with emacs. And then you have the _gall_ to talk about "unix design" and not gumming programs together, when you yourself use the most gummed-up piece of absolute sh*t there is!"
"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'."
"My personal opinion of Mach is not very high. Frankly, it's a piece of crap. It contains all the design mistakes you can make, and even managed to make up a few of its own."
"In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people."
"Personally, I'm _not_ interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid."
And I didn't even get that far down the page.
Then again, if it was between him and de Raadt
"If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won." - Linus Torvalds
has been so remarkably well received
Give it another hour ... The absence of at least one of Torvalds, Stallman, ESR, Larry Wall, or even just a pro-OSS person we have actually heard of will have people screaming (perhaps rightfully so).
I think you are right in that I got Drupal confused with Joomla.
It was to demonstrate that there were holes being actively exploited in Drupal in the past. I knew there were holes because I remembered seeing the Morfeus scanner (as I mentioned above) guessing various webapp-related URI's in my logs, but as Bozovision pointed out above I must have had Drupal confused with Joomla (both PHP, both weird names).
So eat the oxygen producing plants and leave the methane producing cows?
Drupal really has not been known for its security in the past; try Googling "drupal exploit", and I'm sure most webmasters are familiar with the "morfeus fucking scanner" user-agent that appears in logs from time to time checking for (among other things) active Drupal-related links (admin pages etc) to exploit.
... It would be a media-fueled nightmare of FOSS if this goes wrong.
Maybe is has improved since the last time I paid any attention to it, I assume is would have been given an audit before being deployed on a Government website? That would be great for open source; "Open Source Software hacked, Govt website replaced with Goatse, Microsoft says 'I told you so'"
clever marketing though
You make robots to help the elderly so you name your company after one that built robots which destroy most of humanity and declare war on what is left ... "Clever" probably isn't the term you were looking for.
A friend had a problem with a CD burner app (Nero I think?) and asked me to take a look at it (they weren't too tech savvy). So I took a look and Googled the error and found that it was a problem with a registry key that would screw randomly. The fix was to delete it and if the error came back the fix was to change it to a specific value (which would cause nagging warnings but not make the program fail outright, so deleting it first was the better solution). So when I had fixed it I told him offhandedly, not expecting him to understand, that it was a problem with the registry and if it happens again to give me a call. So a week later he calls and says it had the same problem but I didn't need to come round because he had found a registry cleaner, for cheap, only $39.95... I never mention the word "registry" to non-tech people now.
Oh shit, you're right. "Terrific, friendly, articulate article". ;-)
Actually, it was patched on Tuesday.
Doesn't it seem a little odd that the company that is competing for market shares in the web browser area would create a addon for a competing company?
Chrome Frame.
You have JavaScript disabled or are using a browser without JavaScript. This Plugin Check page does not work without the awesome power of JavaScript. Please enable this Content Preference and reload the page. Or disable all your plugins and keep JavaScript disabled... you'd be in good company, that's how RMS rolls.
They stole this idea from Joss Whedon.
No one types them anyways. All of the browsers automatically throw the default http syntax in.
Except web-developers you insensitive clod!
There are a number of https websites I have used/use that (for whatever reason) don't automatically redirect if you simply type the web-address. Hence you have to manually type "https://..." to get the secure site.
We'd all be reading colondot right now.
Since when did WoW players have real-life friends?
Says the guy posting on Slashd-
Oh, nevermind.
If you want your cause to be taken seriously, focus on serious issues. Complaining because people use the phrase "So simple your grandmother could do it" is liable to make people roll their eyes and ignore everything else you have to say.
I use MySQL exclusively and it would nice if Oracle were given a shot at supporting MySQL. Even if they do try and kill it to gain leverage for their own database, there's always MariaDB (a MySQL fork by Monty Widenius, the original creator of MySQL).
... there isn't a single car company with a 90% market share.
Lynx is cheating. You should have to Telnet to the webserver, manually construct the HTTP headers to request the page and then do the same to make a POST request to select the browser you want. Just think how peaceful the Internet would be ...
What do you mean "this day and age"? France have been breaking rules for years and then claiming the law doesn't apply to them. Nothing has changed in France's politics in over 20 years I see.