All jokes aside, BSODs are very very few and far between (certainly on the *nix scale) since 2k/XP was released. Before 2k/XP most people blammed microsoft when in reality it was buggy drivers. Now with the new driver model these instances of drivers crashing the kernel are rather rare. When a company claims to have found a "bug" which was a relativly well-known design decision they have lost most all credibility. This is either a pump-and-dump scheme, vaporware or an instance of code stealing.
Just out of curiostiy, what ACM was this and when. I'm a cadet and I've been to all the regional competitions except one (couldn't make it down there). What huge concepts were missing? We certainly didn't do great (though to be fair we never practiced once) but we certainly didn't do poorly. You have to remember that many of the coders are using ada as the primary language. If you dont know anything about ada it could certainly seem like they were missing "HUGE" concepts because you were simply ignorant about how ada is different than most other OO languages. Furthermore, ada doesn't exactly lend itself to programming "contests" to begin with.
On the last contest I programmed in C but most cadets stick with ada because a whole lot of our core classes are taught in ada95. I certainly wouldn't dismiss cadets or the amount of coding skills by some members of the army. Or you could just go along with your thoughts of smug superiority, after all its not till grad school when you actually realize how little you know.
I'm not sure I quite understand the point of network eng. as a stand-alone major. Network Engineering, while high in demand, very important and very difficult, does not seem to be the type of job where an academic college degree would be best suited. The poster seems like he is looking for a school that will teach him how to set up and run major network infrastructure and I'm not sure college degree programs are going to be set up to specifically train that. You will get a lot of the required problem solving skills as a CS Major, but as for how to setup and configure Cisco routers, those skills would be better served via a technical school, trade school or apprentice type system. College is more apt to teach students how to come up with efficient networking algorithms and solutions rather than how to construct, deploy and maintain a network. EE Majors largely do not learn how to deploy and maintain electrical wiring in a building, those skills, while very difficult and important, are just not normally taught at college.
College may still be the right choice, but think of college as a broad education on problem-solving and critical-thinking rather than a place to specifically teach skills. Skills are easy to acquire by those that have had rigorous training in critical-thinking. I'd focus on the CS Majors or ISE Majors. After a couple years, you will have the opportunity to jump into some really great research areas that fit your interests.
You can have a quick look at the mono project to dispell any thoughts of.NET being strickly a Windows-Centric platform. Could you please explain why the lack of a linker makes it any harder to write a.NET app on multiple platforms. So long as your platform has the the ability to run.NET apps, why should it be any different?
I'm really not sure what all the fuss is about. I don't think Microsoft made any real errors in designing this feature this way. The new DRM stuff they are coming out with is where the real security is and if that were to be broken then this "hack" would be a big deal. This feature is more just a nice tool for office use so that you can send out a form over email and get it back, completed and in the proper format.
They key is stored hashed in the file, no one, not even Microsoft ever touted this as true security, but good enough for the intended use without making it so complex as to make the feature unusable for the average joe office clerk.
AOL tried the low cost internet only thing awhile back.
It was called GNN (global network navigator), needless to say AOL realized it was competing with itself and promptly pulled the plug after figuring out that the only people that signed up left AOL.
Anyone else remember this service and the horrible client that was put with it?
without the industry in order to build the various probes and such already on the moon. The transportation and establishment of the heavy industries required for space flight vehicles on the moon would far exceed the cost of constructing said vehicles and ferrying them up on a space elevator or even a traditional rocket.
While Ikea definatley has a good idea on making big things in small packaging and then putting them together at the point of usage, I still think the costs for a assembly plant on the moon would not be cost effective.
Here is a quote from Linus about the benifits of non-executable stacks:
"In short, anybody who thinks that the non-executable stack gives them any real security is very very much living in a dream world. It may catch a few attacks for old binaries that have security problems, but the basic problem is that the binaries allow you to overwrite their stacks. "
If you would like further proof that there are many many ways to get around a non-executable stack please do a google search on "non-executable stack +weakness". I feel you will be suprised.
As for the XP vs. Gnome interface. You are right, we should probably just leave it with "to each their own" I agree with you that the default XP skin is ugly but with a little customization it can look really nice.
a non-executable stack does not give you the same security as the.NET managed code. If it really did, don't you think possibly they would have just decided to do that instead. Go read a book on.NET (not how to program it) and then come back and tell me that your non-executable stack will provide you all the saftey. Furthermore, a non executable stack does not even provide any real benifit anyways.
And many users welcome DRM, take office documents, many companies want an enforceable way to make sure documents don't leak. Right there is an example of a user who would like DRM. Just because DRM can be used to take away your right to steal mp3s and movies does not make it evil.
And I use gnome, its not the end all be all of GUI's and certainly not up to WinXP interface in my opinon.
anyways, i meant out of the box linux and not 'trusted solaris'...its just that everyone always raves about the wonders of linux security when they fail to see the outdated model it still uses, winnt/xp is not secure b/c of its applications, the os is not the issue
i just dont understand why the slashdot crowd is under the delusion that the linux kernal is somehow any better (its worse) than the win2k/xp kernel. the security object model of win2k/xp is vastly superior to the ancient and useless global/owner/group method. the linux cli is hardly as powerful as what this microsoft prop calls for. and while win2k/xp may not be truely microkernal, its actual design is superior. Windows problems revolve around one thing, applications running at too high of a privledge. this came because windows was originally designed without pervasive networking ideas. once applications can run with proper levels of control (the framework is already there) then we will be laughing at linux/unix security and inflexability as the win2k/nit model is superior. quit bashing and open up a undergraduate text book on operating systems to see the proof.
common sense, i know that is a very tricky concept for people but most of the laws of this nation are ambigious to say the least. That was done for a purpose and is often a check agianst oppression and the 1% that lie in the gray area. Some states used to not have a justifiable hommicide clause, but no jury would convict someone for a justifiable hommicide...its all about common sense
exactly, it is banned, but you missed the key point, "intentionally". Splash damage is not intentional, just as the M1A2 tank uses a high powered laser range finder that will blind you, it is permited because its main function is not to blind people.
When are people going to stop using the tired line, of watch Windows crash. Windows 9x may have crashed, a properly configured and maintained Windows XP box will simply not crash. I have only seen my machine crash in Windows 2000 or XP once in a year and a half and that was due to an old unstable video driver. Yes a video issue shouldn't take down a machine but that's the price you pay for Kernel level video drivers. If you want to bash Windows at least think up something true. For the desktop arena, windows crashes about as much as linux, period
Anyone else absolutely hate the PS2 mouse/keyboard connector, I have bent/broken countless trying to plug in one of these into the back of a computer which is shoved in some ungodly angle
this is getting pedantic to say the least, i appricate the effort at a logical argument, although before making such an argument you are assuming that i define physical property as the only source of "stealing". Plagerism is stealing in any form even if no physical property was touched because you are depriving another of what was theirs, by passing off the words as your own you have prevented that person from getting the recognition they deserve, such is stealing. By copying a music file you are not stealing anything physical but the net effect remains, infringement is stealing. And as for your parcel remark, yes it was stolen by you. The post man says it was stolen from "me" because he had the physical control over it because he was intrusted from delivery. You stole not only the package from the reciever but the businees from the courier service who now cannot be payed b/c the package wasn't deliveried. Stop being pedantic and pretending you have some sort of sophmoric realization of your superior ideas.
translation: in order to justify my continued theft, i will deem that it is not stealing even though i am depriving someone (record companies/etc) of money which they would be otherwise entitled (regardless of how you feel about them or their prices) had i not "infringed"
oh this is cute, for all you non US'ians I am going to give you a three line summary of why my party is the best one and the other are scumbags, remember i am in no way diluting the truth or skewing it for my benifit, i promise i'm doing this just because i want to educate you not because i have my own agenda to push forward
I've always had a problem with my wrists and fingers hurting until i switched to the microsoft natural keyboard. Now when i hold my hands verticle and simulate typing it seems that my wrists are stressed much more than they are with the MSFT Natural keyboard. Your palm are always oriented towards earth when resting so wouldn't that be a much better natural position....plus the layout of the board makes using keyboard shortcuts very slow.
Yet another wonderful instance of the US Army protecting your right to make stupid and baseless comments. I would argue that the average US Military Officer has an intellect far greater than your own. How would you know the first thing about military competence. Civilian casualties happen, it is unavoidable. And to be honest 3000 is really a very small ammount when you factor in MET-TC for this siutation. You have a civy populace which is largely intermingled with the "military" population, the line is often blurred. When "military" forces seek refuge in a civilians home and are firing from it, you can either shell the place or send in some sort of exact assualt, which do you think causes less military kills? Unless you are prepared to send that number of America's sons and daughters to be killed, i would hold off judgement. Furthermore, the military does what the civilian government orders, if you dont like it then go picket somewhere but show basic respect to the armed forces, they get payed crap to protect your right to be a moron
Wow you obviously know what you are talking about, except for the fact that every single officer you will ever talk to only speaks of leading from the front.
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All jokes aside, BSODs are very very few and far between (certainly on the *nix scale) since 2k/XP was released. Before 2k/XP most people blammed microsoft when in reality it was buggy drivers. Now with the new driver model these instances of drivers crashing the kernel are rather rare. When a company claims to have found a "bug" which was a relativly well-known design decision they have lost most all credibility. This is either a pump-and-dump scheme, vaporware or an instance of code stealing.
Just out of curiostiy, what ACM was this and when. I'm a cadet and I've been to all the regional competitions except one (couldn't make it down there). What huge concepts were missing? We certainly didn't do great (though to be fair we never practiced once) but we certainly didn't do poorly. You have to remember that many of the coders are using ada as the primary language. If you dont know anything about ada it could certainly seem like they were missing "HUGE" concepts because you were simply ignorant about how ada is different than most other OO languages. Furthermore, ada doesn't exactly lend itself to programming "contests" to begin with.
On the last contest I programmed in C but most cadets stick with ada because a whole lot of our core classes are taught in ada95. I certainly wouldn't dismiss cadets or the amount of coding skills by some members of the army. Or you could just go along with your thoughts of smug superiority, after all its not till grad school when you actually realize how little you know.
I'm not sure I quite understand the point of network eng. as a stand-alone major. Network Engineering, while high in demand, very important and very difficult, does not seem to be the type of job where an academic college degree would be best suited. The poster seems like he is looking for a school that will teach him how to set up and run major network infrastructure and I'm not sure college degree programs are going to be set up to specifically train that. You will get a lot of the required problem solving skills as a CS Major, but as for how to setup and configure Cisco routers, those skills would be better served via a technical school, trade school or apprentice type system. College is more apt to teach students how to come up with efficient networking algorithms and solutions rather than how to construct, deploy and maintain a network. EE Majors largely do not learn how to deploy and maintain electrical wiring in a building, those skills, while very difficult and important, are just not normally taught at college. College may still be the right choice, but think of college as a broad education on problem-solving and critical-thinking rather than a place to specifically teach skills. Skills are easy to acquire by those that have had rigorous training in critical-thinking. I'd focus on the CS Majors or ISE Majors. After a couple years, you will have the opportunity to jump into some really great research areas that fit your interests.
You can have a quick look at the mono project to dispell any thoughts of .NET being strickly a Windows-Centric platform. Could you please explain why the lack of a linker makes it any harder to write a .NET app on multiple platforms. So long as your platform has the the ability to run .NET apps, why should it be any different?
I'm really not sure what all the fuss is about. I don't think Microsoft made any real errors in designing this feature this way. The new DRM stuff they are coming out with is where the real security is and if that were to be broken then this "hack" would be a big deal. This feature is more just a nice tool for office use so that you can send out a form over email and get it back, completed and in the proper format.
They key is stored hashed in the file, no one, not even Microsoft ever touted this as true security, but good enough for the intended use without making it so complex as to make the feature unusable for the average joe office clerk.
AOL tried the low cost internet only thing awhile back.
It was called GNN (global network navigator), needless to say AOL realized it was competing with itself and promptly pulled the plug after figuring out that the only people that signed up left AOL.
Anyone else remember this service and the horrible client that was put with it?
without the industry in order to build the various probes and such already on the moon. The transportation and establishment of the heavy industries required for space flight vehicles on the moon would far exceed the cost of constructing said vehicles and ferrying them up on a space elevator or even a traditional rocket.
While Ikea definatley has a good idea on making big things in small packaging and then putting them together at the point of usage, I still think the costs for a assembly plant on the moon would not be cost effective.
Non Executable Stack:
Here is a quote from Linus about the benifits of non-executable stacks:
"In short, anybody who thinks that the non-executable stack gives them any real security is very very much living in a dream world. It may catch a few attacks for old binaries that have security problems, but the basic problem is that the binaries allow you to overwrite their stacks. "
If you would like further proof that there are many many ways to get around a non-executable stack please do a google search on "non-executable stack +weakness". I feel you will be suprised.
As for the XP vs. Gnome interface. You are right, we should probably just leave it with "to each their own" I agree with you that the default XP skin is ugly but with a little customization it can look really nice.
a non-executable stack does not give you the same security as the .NET managed code. If it really did, don't you think possibly they would have just decided to do that instead. Go read a book on .NET (not how to program it) and then come back and tell me that your non-executable stack will provide you all the saftey. Furthermore, a non executable stack does not even provide any real benifit anyways.
And many users welcome DRM, take office documents, many companies want an enforceable way to make sure documents don't leak. Right there is an example of a user who would like DRM. Just because DRM can be used to take away your right to steal mp3s and movies does not make it evil.
And I use gnome, its not the end all be all of GUI's and certainly not up to WinXP interface in my opinon.
i have a new saab 9-3, awsome car with a lot of cool gagets but the bluetooth option is for the '04 model year
no stallings
anyways, i meant out of the box linux and not 'trusted solaris'...its just that everyone always raves about the wonders of linux security when they fail to see the outdated model it still uses, winnt/xp is not secure b/c of its applications, the os is not the issue
i just dont understand why the slashdot crowd is under the delusion that the linux kernal is somehow any better (its worse) than the win2k/xp kernel. the security object model of win2k/xp is vastly superior to the ancient and useless global/owner/group method. the linux cli is hardly as powerful as what this microsoft prop calls for. and while win2k/xp may not be truely microkernal, its actual design is superior. Windows problems revolve around one thing, applications running at too high of a privledge. this came because windows was originally designed without pervasive networking ideas. once applications can run with proper levels of control (the framework is already there) then we will be laughing at linux/unix security and inflexability as the win2k/nit model is superior. quit bashing and open up a undergraduate text book on operating systems to see the proof.
common sense, i know that is a very tricky concept for people but most of the laws of this nation are ambigious to say the least. That was done for a purpose and is often a check agianst oppression and the 1% that lie in the gray area. Some states used to not have a justifiable hommicide clause, but no jury would convict someone for a justifiable hommicide...its all about common sense
are you joking, the last O2 i worked on made me want to run screaming back to Windows 3.1
exactly, it is banned, but you missed the key point, "intentionally". Splash damage is not intentional, just as the M1A2 tank uses a high powered laser range finder that will blind you, it is permited because its main function is not to blind people.
When are people going to stop using the tired line, of watch Windows crash. Windows 9x may have crashed, a properly configured and maintained Windows XP box will simply not crash. I have only seen my machine crash in Windows 2000 or XP once in a year and a half and that was due to an old unstable video driver. Yes a video issue shouldn't take down a machine but that's the price you pay for Kernel level video drivers. If you want to bash Windows at least think up something true. For the desktop arena, windows crashes about as much as linux, period
Anyone else absolutely hate the PS2 mouse/keyboard connector, I have bent/broken countless trying to plug in one of these into the back of a computer which is shoved in some ungodly angle
this is getting pedantic to say the least, i appricate the effort at a logical argument, although before making such an argument you are assuming that i define physical property as the only source of "stealing". Plagerism is stealing in any form even if no physical property was touched because you are depriving another of what was theirs, by passing off the words as your own you have prevented that person from getting the recognition they deserve, such is stealing. By copying a music file you are not stealing anything physical but the net effect remains, infringement is stealing. And as for your parcel remark, yes it was stolen by you. The post man says it was stolen from "me" because he had the physical control over it because he was intrusted from delivery. You stole not only the package from the reciever but the businees from the courier service who now cannot be payed b/c the package wasn't deliveried. Stop being pedantic and pretending you have some sort of sophmoric realization of your superior ideas.
care to explain how?
translation: in order to justify my continued theft, i will deem that it is not stealing even though i am depriving someone (record companies/etc) of money which they would be otherwise entitled (regardless of how you feel about them or their prices) had i not "infringed"
grow up
oh this is cute, for all you non US'ians I am going to give you a three line summary of why my party is the best one and the other are scumbags, remember i am in no way diluting the truth or skewing it for my benifit, i promise i'm doing this just because i want to educate you not because i have my own agenda to push forward
I've always had a problem with my wrists and fingers hurting until i switched to the microsoft natural keyboard. Now when i hold my hands verticle and simulate typing it seems that my wrists are stressed much more than they are with the MSFT Natural keyboard. Your palm are always oriented towards earth when resting so wouldn't that be a much better natural position....plus the layout of the board makes using keyboard shortcuts very slow.
Yes, if gravity were a particle then you could use newton mechanics, but its not, so you can't
this post doesn't even make sense, "stuff out there to pull the light beam away from us"....interesting science yet its gets a 2??
Yet another wonderful instance of the US Army protecting your right to make stupid and baseless comments. I would argue that the average US Military Officer has an intellect far greater than your own. How would you know the first thing about military competence. Civilian casualties happen, it is unavoidable. And to be honest 3000 is really a very small ammount when you factor in MET-TC for this siutation. You have a civy populace which is largely intermingled with the "military" population, the line is often blurred. When "military" forces seek refuge in a civilians home and are firing from it, you can either shell the place or send in some sort of exact assualt, which do you think causes less military kills? Unless you are prepared to send that number of America's sons and daughters to be killed, i would hold off judgement. Furthermore, the military does what the civilian government orders, if you dont like it then go picket somewhere but show basic respect to the armed forces, they get payed crap to protect your right to be a moron
Wow you obviously know what you are talking about, except for the fact that every single officer you will ever talk to only speaks of leading from the front.
nope, the voodoo rush was a voodoo original on the card , the banshee was the scaled back voodoo2 on the card...i had both, they all sucked