I'd be very impressed if Microsoft actually came out with a command-line only version. The fact that "it's a very tangled subsystem" makes me wonder how possible that would be.
I could see a version of Windows shipping without the GUI enabled, allowing administration only by remote desktop. But for the entire OS to ship with no GUI libraries would be very unlikely.
On the other hand, they've already done it (sort of), look at the.NET CLI. But if they shipped an OS based on just the CLI, it couldn't very well be called "Windows," now could it?
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Yes, this is the new Bad Thing going around. Spammers have figured out that there are some really smart filters out there. I have no experience with Spamassassin. I've been using Spammunition.
Lately, the image based spams are coming through. I have noticed one thing about them, they have absolutly no text, besides the subject. Usually, when someone sends you a funny picture, they have a comment, or even the text from the previous forwarded email (layers and layers of greater than symbols (>)). Spammunition not only uses "bad" words to block spam, it uses "good" words to keep from blocking non-spam. So the very presence of a word can prevent the email from being filtered. I'd say only about 10% of the image only spam emails are getting through by Spammunition because of this.
Maybe in the future, filters will incorporate OCR for emails like this. Then the spammers will make sure the text in the images confuse the OCR software. Or, they'll break the image into tiny pieces.
The treaty "applied to outer space and celestial bodies." But the intent was to curb strategiec superiority, not research. The distinction being, we're not storing bunker busters on the moon, we're using bunker busters on the moon.
The difference is the fact that we're not planning on firing them from the moon at a target on earth. Big difference. That's what the treaty is for.
I think it's rather humorous how many countries actually signed it. Imagine being the prime minister (or whoever signed the damn thing) of Afghanistan. Think they even read it?
wouldn't a bigger concern be that your coworkers... think that you were not actually working
Nope. I get the job done (another warism?). All they have to do is check the source control server for activity. I can't tell if my actual coding velocity is different at home, but that's harder to measure anyway.
Thing is, I can tell if they are checking the source control server for activity, and they don't. Go figure.
This happens to me when I work from home. We had a baby in March, and I took the following two weeks off, then worked from home the following two weeks after that.
Many family and friends who came over were in shock and awe about my ability to lay on the couch and work. The comments weren't directed at me, but I could tell they weren't impressed, for they know not what I do (code Java).
My dad is a building inspector, and he gets zoning complaints about illegal dwelling modifications. Some are for bedrooms, and some are for offices. Our city will look into things without a formal written complaint. Any drunk idiot can call in complaints to the city.
Most of the complaints are generated by estranged family members or the "Ex." So if you're going to break zoning law, make sure you're on good terms with all of your friends and family, or just don't invite them over during business hours.
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030423 Firebird Browser/0.6"
So, what's the problem here? They call it Firebird Browser, they call it FirebirdSQL. Some people will shorten it, but I'm sure you'd know which one's which from the context.
CRN: Some are worried that a court case might give Microsoft a legal precedent that could be used to deaccelerate adoption of Linux at customer sites. What do you say to that?
Ya think? As you may or may not recall, SCO had ties to Microsoft back in the day, when it was called XENIX. So I guess it's still in it's blood to threaten the other operating systems on the block.
/* Remember to sue everyone in about 20 years (bgates). */
-The bizarre removal of the capacity for me to have a heirarchal list of more rarely used applications (the Applications Apple menu in prior versions/a Windows Start menu/A KDE/Gnome start panel menu) is not user-centered. The quoted reason is "we don't want people to use menus, use the dock". This is unreasonable, as instead of organization of items into utilites, programming, in the dock there would just by over 200 minature icons in a flat bar. I had to make a poor-man's equivalent by putting a folder in the dock with folders of aliases, and then move the dock on the left side of the screen so that the menus expand to the right instead of backwards, but that is a crap workaround for an optional feature that should have been not removed from the user.
Here's what I did. I bit the bullet and placed every icon I could find in the dock. Then, I grouped like icons together as though they were in their own folders.
I saw them do that in a key note speech once, and I though, "You've got to be kidding. That is crazy. I'm going to try it and prove that it can't work."
I was wrong. After a while, I would remember rougly where on my dock a particular application was, and it's HELLA faster than the start menu ever could be.
So now, every so oftent, I check the Recent Items Applications list to see if I've been using things that aren't in the dock, and bring them into the dock. I've never had the dock get so large that it's off the screen. Sure, they're tiny, but the magnification works as designed.
Repeat after me: Be one with your dock...be one with your dock.;-)
"If these 180 were somehow spirited off internet - we'd be left with the Nigerians, and companies spamming by mistake. The spam problem would simply disappear," he said.
Wait a second. I hate spam as much as the next guy, but that kind of statement makes me cringe. What exactly is meant by "spirited off the internet?"
This naming problem was obviously known very early on. The Type 4 JDBC driver is officially called JayBird to avoid problems with the Borland Type 3 and 4 driver named InterClient. But the actual JDBC driver class is called org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver. If everyone in the project umbrella could have agreed from the beginning, this might not have happened.
Reminds me of this article. But seriously, wouldn't the daily movement of the cell phone user also be useful? Granted, it's not as vigorous as the vibrate feature, but it has to account for something.
"Crud, I dropped my cell phone. But now I have ten more minutes of talk time! Gotta love solid state!"
So, pray tell, where does that result belong? I agree, it shouldn't be number three, but where then? It's nowhere to be found in the first ten pages of Google. Am I to assume does not Google weight search results? No, just look at the Search King case. I don't think we can really rely on any search engine with an agenda, but we have no other choice.
I went though the iomega class action law suit way back when, and came out ahead. The rebate was something like $40, but when it was all said and done, I ended up with &70 worth of disks, and other stuff plus the check for $40.
The chaces of being part of the class action is worth the trouble, in my opinion.
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I'd be very impressed if Microsoft actually came out with a command-line only version. The fact that "it's a very tangled subsystem" makes me wonder how possible that would be.
.NET CLI. But if they shipped an OS based on just the CLI, it couldn't very well be called "Windows," now could it?
I could see a version of Windows shipping without the GUI enabled, allowing administration only by remote desktop. But for the entire OS to ship with no GUI libraries would be very unlikely.
On the other hand, they've already done it (sort of), look at the
Mirrors:
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zdnet.co.uk link
Yes, this is the new Bad Thing going around. Spammers have figured out that there are some really smart filters out there. I have no experience with Spamassassin. I've been using Spammunition.
Lately, the image based spams are coming through. I have noticed one thing about them, they have absolutly no text, besides the subject. Usually, when someone sends you a funny picture, they have a comment, or even the text from the previous forwarded email (layers and layers of greater than symbols (>)). Spammunition not only uses "bad" words to block spam, it uses "good" words to keep from blocking non-spam. So the very presence of a word can prevent the email from being filtered. I'd say only about 10% of the image only spam emails are getting through by Spammunition because of this.
Maybe in the future, filters will incorporate OCR for emails like this. Then the spammers will make sure the text in the images confuse the OCR software. Or, they'll break the image into tiny pieces.
What a race. How fun.
Come back one year!
That's just sick and wrong. Not just what he said, but how he said it.
The treaty "applied to outer space and celestial bodies." But the intent was to curb strategiec superiority, not research. The distinction being, we're not storing bunker busters on the moon, we're using bunker busters on the moon.
The difference is the fact that we're not planning on firing them from the moon at a target on earth. Big difference. That's what the treaty is for.
Read it yourself:
Narrative
I think it's rather humorous how many countries actually signed it. Imagine being the prime minister (or whoever signed the damn thing) of Afghanistan. Think they even read it?
So, we want to know more. And this is one way to do it.
I like it, I want it, where can I buy it? And can I get it as a PCMCIA card for my TiBook? Would that work??
Wild speculation or not, it's fun to think about.
wouldn't a bigger concern be that your coworkers ... think that you were not actually working
Nope. I get the job done (another warism?). All they have to do is check the source control server for activity. I can't tell if my actual coding velocity is different at home, but that's harder to measure anyway.
Thing is, I can tell if they are checking the source control server for activity, and they don't. Go figure.
Working from home, "kickth ath, Kyle!"
This happens to me when I work from home. We had a baby in March, and I took the following two weeks off, then worked from home the following two weeks after that.
Many family and friends who came over were in shock and awe about my ability to lay on the couch and work. The comments weren't directed at me, but I could tell they weren't impressed, for they know not what I do (code Java).
My dad is a building inspector, and he gets zoning complaints about illegal dwelling modifications. Some are for bedrooms, and some are for offices. Our city will look into things without a formal written complaint. Any drunk idiot can call in complaints to the city.
Most of the complaints are generated by estranged family members or the "Ex." So if you're going to break zoning law, make sure you're on good terms with all of your friends and family, or just don't invite them over during business hours.
...a technology that upgrades live-action 35mm films into the Imax experience.
I don't know if I could call it an upgrade when you have to use Pan & Scan. Sure it's bigger, and more exciting, but you're missing pieces.
Here's a mirror to the article:
Link 1
Here's a mirror to the article:
Link 1
Ya think? As you may or may not recall, SCO had ties to Microsoft back in the day, when it was called XENIX. So I guess it's still in it's blood to threaten the other operating systems on the block.
-The bizarre removal of the capacity for me to have a heirarchal list of more rarely used applications (the Applications Apple menu in prior versions/a Windows Start menu/A KDE/Gnome start panel menu) is not user-centered. The quoted reason is "we don't want people to use menus, use the dock". This is unreasonable, as instead of organization of items into utilites, programming, in the dock there would just by over 200 minature icons in a flat bar. I had to make a poor-man's equivalent by putting a folder in the dock with folders of aliases, and then move the dock on the left side of the screen so that the menus expand to the right instead of backwards, but that is a crap workaround for an optional feature that should have been not removed from the user.
;-)
Here's what I did. I bit the bullet and placed every icon I could find in the dock. Then, I grouped like icons together as though they were in their own folders.
I saw them do that in a key note speech once, and I though, "You've got to be kidding. That is crazy. I'm going to try it and prove that it can't work."
I was wrong. After a while, I would remember rougly where on my dock a particular application was, and it's HELLA faster than the start menu ever could be.
So now, every so oftent, I check the Recent Items Applications list to see if I've been using things that aren't in the dock, and bring them into the dock. I've never had the dock get so large that it's off the screen. Sure, they're tiny, but the magnification works as designed.
Repeat after me: Be one with your dock...be one with your dock.
Or maybe it's the other way around.
"If these 180 were somehow spirited off internet - we'd be left with the Nigerians, and companies spamming by mistake. The spam problem would simply disappear," he said.
Wait a second. I hate spam as much as the next guy, but that kind of statement makes me cringe. What exactly is meant by "spirited off the internet?"
"If you power your puck-up by cooking grease, you might be a Redneck."
This naming problem was obviously known very early on. The Type 4 JDBC driver is officially called JayBird to avoid problems with the Borland Type 3 and 4 driver named InterClient. But the actual JDBC driver class is called org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver. If everyone in the project umbrella could have agreed from the beginning, this might not have happened.
Good or bad, they have their publicity.
Reminds me of this article. But seriously, wouldn't the daily movement of the cell phone user also be useful? Granted, it's not as vigorous as the vibrate feature, but it has to account for something.
"Crud, I dropped my cell phone. But now I have ten more minutes of talk time! Gotta love solid state!"
Not to be a troll, but it really is cheaper if you buy it here.
So, pray tell, where does that result belong? I agree, it shouldn't be number three, but where then? It's nowhere to be found in the first ten pages of Google. Am I to assume does not Google weight search results? No, just look at the Search King case. I don't think we can really rely on any search engine with an agenda, but we have no other choice.
In case it's slashdotted:
(I didn't bother to mirror the first link.)
Link 2
Link 3
If it's anything like "
The Physics of Star Trek" then I'll pass. Can you say "fiction?"
Oh, and if it's been slashdotted, here are some mirrors:
Link 1
Link 2
With all of the .net security holes we could choose to be anybody....
They tried it. It's called Microsoft Passport.
I went though the iomega class action law suit way back when, and came out ahead. The rebate was something like $40, but when it was all said and done, I ended up with &70 worth of disks, and other stuff plus the check for $40.
The chaces of being part of the class action is worth the trouble, in my opinion.