I call BS. What company unless the entire school district has a contractual obligation with them to only buy from them could possibly C&D you for recommending purchasing something? Also, you didn't even read the slashdot summary of the article, because it's talking about how they're less likely to need maintenance, so you don't need as many techs. Not that you're giong to get fired because you brought it up, but fired because you're now redundant/unneeded.
That doesn't apply, it's a www.microsoft.com/redir.asp?blabla crap or something like that.. so if www.microsoft.com works, then they should have fixed that redir to do an http refresh to windowsupdate.microsoft.com immediately.
They appear to have fixed it by now, as evidenced by the reply I made to my comment. yes, I know how DNS works. It's quite a pain when my friend's computer (which I mostly handle the admin tasks for) loses internet (business class RR in rochester sucks) and the DNS is fucked up for days. I might not have it set up properly or something, but I know about the time it takes to propogate:)
Going to 'tools, windows update' in internet explorer takes you to a redir site on microsoft.com, which attempts to forward you to windowsupdate.com NOT windowsupdate.microsoft.com.. even still (~3PM EST). you'd think they'd at least fix that if they were fuckin with the dns..
(mozilla) firebird has an extension available to right click and deal with non-linked website addresses. I don't have it installed, and the extensions page on texturizer is fucked up cuz some idiot put his name in the javascript and didn't escape the apostrophe in it..
What, the 'AAAAA!'? I wonder if they got their name from the noise people made when trying to rid themselves of acronym dependencies (by playing in traffic like grandparent suggested), or if it's just a strange coincidence
Well I guess I stand corrected. I thought the whole reason for it was that it couldn't be received by any programs other than windows, and thus the logon box couldn't be faked by any user space application (such as a keylogger). I was also pretty sure that even if you COULD fake it, it couldn't be intercepted and KEPT from windows. Thus, like the post above this, vmware will catch it, but so will windows, so you get a rebooted vmachine and the task manager (if XP. the other box w/ change password, lock screen, etc. if 2k).
Shows how little I program for windows I guess.:)
Now if only there were an easy way to change the status of one of the keyboard lights (Without using SendInput to simulate keypresses)..
Benchmarks are meant to test card performance. Optimizing for them is wrong, ok? Optimizing for real games is ok, because there's benefit to the end user (better game play). But for synthetic benchmarks, it's just fucking cheating and lying.
Also, compiling for athlons isn't cheating, as long as 2+2 is still equal to 4, and not 3.96. The new set of issues (hell, the original set as well) involve the program not doing what it's supposed to do: Produce the best quality images. The first set found involved it completely screwing up if you went off the path, and the second set (the current one) involve lowering visual quality. ATi got slammed when they did it with quake3, nVidia deserves to take even more shit for doing it with something where the only benefit to the user is that the number at the end is higher. Thus, they're doing it to lie. ATi just did it cuz the cards at the time were crap, but it DID make a REAL game somewhat faster (though uglier).
meh, I mostly just make sure its the type of data I expect.. if it's supposed to be a string containing only certain chars, make sure it does. if it's a freeform string, use the function(s) available for escaping it. If it's supposed to be numeric.. well, that's what is_numeric is for.
Then I just shove them in the query the way they are if they pass the tests... Is there any other way to do this? (what's this:? thing someone posted about below?)
PHP, being one of the simplest languages to learn, unfortunately attracts HUGE numbers of really bad programmers
And that's exactly why I use PHP! Err..
I know how to write good code (I think. How do you define what's good?). I know why register_globals is bad (and I have it turned off). I have no clue wtf SQL injection is, but obviously every bit coming from the user should be treated as unsafe, and I code that way too. Fucking with sites that don't is something I consider my civil duty. (Way too many rating sites allow you to put in any rating you want by a simple HTML hack. Yep, a couple ratings of like 1,000 stars is all you need to boost that [skin/program/artist/website] up to the top of the list..)
PHP is nice for quickly doing things, and being able to read it the week afterwards. Perl just scares me.:)
Eh, yes it does. Otherwise I'd have a lot more connections open while talking to people than just the one single connection to AOL's server. Hence the 'direct connect' button, which then DOES establish a direct connection to the server. Also, ICQ now uses modified versions of the AIM protocol(s) anyway (or at least, can run on them), so all ICQ traffic prolly goes through the servers too.
I bet the other networks are the same. MSN, Yahoo, etc. Direct connections are a bit slower to start up, and a bit more of a security risk, since you now know the other person's IP address.
I haven't read the article, but I specifically searched for OpenGL. Yes, it's nice, but it's somewaht stifling innovation at the very moment. it's flexible and lets the manufacturers add their own stuff to it, but now we're basically to vendor lockin on the video cards again. I.E. anything using recent OpenGL is probably using card-proprietary extensions, if they're really that cutting edge. Meanwhile, DirectX 'standardizes' quicker. Therefore, while I love OpenGL's portability and power, I have to say I think it's really screwing itself over at the moment. Where's the new version?!:)
Yeah, I never understood the point for SMS. My phone does straight email (with attachments). (and also has GPS w/ maps, etc.) Cost me only ~$40USD too. Of course, it was a discontinued model.. newer versions take movies and stuff, and they were getting rid of the one I got to get those out the door.
Too often though people buy in to the plans that don't have the email. They only have the direct-to-phone-number type (which aren't compatible between carriers here). Quite annoying.
So, I assume therefore that you have a laptop, shielded from radiation of course, without wireless, and a separate battery charger for it, so that there's no way data can get off of it without you doing it right? I bet CD manuf's love you for the amount of discs you burn to get stuff between the two systems.
Paranoia like this is stupid. Yes, you make a phone call. This doesn't mean that your entire address book gets sent at the same time, nor does it mean that your folder full of hot hot 120x90 pr0n gets sent to people either.
Bah, privacy activists would be insane to tackle something this stupid. Who cares where the bill was last used? Ah, crap. I bought stuff at wal-mart. Oh look, another bill in my pocket came from Wendys. woops, here's one that's from Fleet Bank! Oh, here's an interesting one: Alice's Porn Shop! err..
Ok, maybe slightly concerned;) What I worry about now that I've thought about it a bit more is hacking the money.. if they rely too much on the machines and not enough on the actual sight of the cashier, woops, I wiped it and that $1 now reads as a $20. Of course, if anyone ever counts your money before swiping it, you're going to jail.. but otherwise, no worries. (Unless you need a thumbprint or something else personally identifiable). That's why I wasn't worried about privacy: there's no other personally identifiable information to go along with it (at most places), though reading where you got the bill from might be rather annoying/embarassing.
Damn, I didn't realize they could be that small.. I don't know how durable it would be though? If there was a way to make certain that they were in the notes, I could see it being a nice way to check to see if the notes added up to the value punched in by the cashier: a kind of redundancy. It would take a while til the new notes with these things were in decent enough circulation to make this viable, but would still be interesting. Too many people would start to rely on it though, which might not be a good idea.
I'm just wondering how easy it would be for something that tiny to get scratched/cut off? I'm not so worried about privacy implications (maybe I'm not paranoid enough), but I'm sure there'll be some posts of that line soon enough.
tee: ~/.sig*: No such file or directory £!/bin/sh echo $0|grep sh$||(c=`echo 3vvpnqo2zxm|tr 'a-z|$*~./0-9' '0-9|$*~./a-z'`;cat $0|$c)
it wants to replace my # with a.. well, ok, a pound symbol. I don't know why. and if it's from the variable $c, tee doesn't work (though if I just type it in by hand it does.)
(oh, and btw: I got that tutorial from 'a list apart', that's where I got the idea from.. it still has the same problems. And it brings up another slight issue I have, which is the fact that you need spacer divs. I dont' know if CSS2 putting these in for you would work (if it's supported by the browser), but right there you destroy that which CSS is intended to do. There should be a way around this (floated elements having space or something, I don't know.)
I didn't think out my post too well (bah, I blame lack of sleep, even though I'd just woken up). Anyway: CSS2 is barely supported by the things I have to use, I'm working on stuff now, so I have to try and get it to work in a decent array of browsers. That includes (and probably is limited to): Mozilla, IE5.5+, and Konqueror. I use all three on a regular basis. Waiting for CSS3 is annoying:) But I did take a look at parts of the spec after the other person replied to me, and there are some nice things happening in CSS3. Too bad I'll have grandchildren before it's supported widely. (hint: I don't have children nor a girlfriend at the moment:))
The form one: Look at the slashdot submit. Notice how the labels are right aligned, with the form controls/elements/whatever all left aligned to the same column? tables make that easy. CSS, not so much (since the div containing the labels might be too small if width specified absolutely.) There's no easy way to make the column of labels all change size when one is too big (that I can think of).
Example 3: it doesn't matter if there's a fixed height or not, as long as they're the SAME height. If one is bigger, then the next floats that come along align to the edge of that one. Therefore if the line wrapping causes the second picture in the first row to be a line longer than the others, the second row will start from underneath the third picture in the first row.
I like CSS. It does make things a lot easier. In fact, I just redid one of my friend's pages with all css, reduced the size and complexity quite a bit (I left his table column layouts since that was more invasive changes than I felt like making at the time.) What bothers me are people trying to claim that CURRENTLY SUPPORTED CSS is capable of doing anything you want, be it images in your borders (CSS3), table displays (CSS2, not well supported, and legal to be ignored), or whatever. Eventually it will get there, but sometimes it's just easier to go with the quick hack than work out all the CSS to do manage a similar effect.
damn, why the hell bother stealing them then? I don't know how much the Acura Integra would cost, but it seems like you'd have to be stupid to risk felony charges of this calibur when there's such a profit to be made even if done legally.
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I call BS. What company unless the entire school district has a contractual obligation with them to only buy from them could possibly C&D you for recommending purchasing something? Also, you didn't even read the slashdot summary of the article, because it's talking about how they're less likely to need maintenance, so you don't need as many techs. Not that you're giong to get fired because you brought it up, but fired because you're now redundant/unneeded.
That doesn't apply, it's a www.microsoft.com/redir.asp?blabla crap or something like that.. so if www.microsoft.com works, then they should have fixed that redir to do an http refresh to windowsupdate.microsoft.com immediately.
:)
They appear to have fixed it by now, as evidenced by the reply I made to my comment. yes, I know how DNS works. It's quite a pain when my friend's computer (which I mostly handle the admin tasks for) loses internet (business class RR in rochester sucks) and the DNS is fucked up for days. I might not have it set up properly or something, but I know about the time it takes to propogate
Going to 'tools, windows update' in internet explorer takes you to a redir site on microsoft.com, which attempts to forward you to windowsupdate.com NOT windowsupdate.microsoft.com .. even still (~3PM EST). you'd think they'd at least fix that if they were fuckin with the dns..
it keeps crashing on my system. (windows xp sp1 athlon (original) 750mhz 256mb ram, japanese default language)..
I use eudora and haven't had too many problems with it, but am always open to something new.
mine can! send me some? ;)
Just like records became extinct, eh?
(mozilla) firebird has an extension available to right click and deal with non-linked website addresses. I don't have it installed, and the extensions page on texturizer is fucked up cuz some idiot put his name in the javascript and didn't escape the apostrophe in it..
What, the 'AAAAA!'? I wonder if they got their name from the noise people made when trying to rid themselves of acronym dependencies (by playing in traffic like grandparent suggested), or if it's just a strange coincidence
Well I guess I stand corrected. I thought the whole reason for it was that it couldn't be received by any programs other than windows, and thus the logon box couldn't be faked by any user space application (such as a keylogger). I was also pretty sure that even if you COULD fake it, it couldn't be intercepted and KEPT from windows. Thus, like the post above this, vmware will catch it, but so will windows, so you get a rebooted vmachine and the task manager (if XP. the other box w/ change password, lock screen, etc. if 2k).
:)
Shows how little I program for windows I guess.
Now if only there were an easy way to change the status of one of the keyboard lights (Without using SendInput to simulate keypresses)..
Actually, it can be sent and faked just fine. It can't be RECEIVED by any program that's not the operating system, in windows.
Benchmarks are meant to test card performance. Optimizing for them is wrong, ok? Optimizing for real games is ok, because there's benefit to the end user (better game play). But for synthetic benchmarks, it's just fucking cheating and lying.
Also, compiling for athlons isn't cheating, as long as 2+2 is still equal to 4, and not 3.96. The new set of issues (hell, the original set as well) involve the program not doing what it's supposed to do: Produce the best quality images. The first set found involved it completely screwing up if you went off the path, and the second set (the current one) involve lowering visual quality. ATi got slammed when they did it with quake3, nVidia deserves to take even more shit for doing it with something where the only benefit to the user is that the number at the end is higher. Thus, they're doing it to lie. ATi just did it cuz the cards at the time were crap, but it DID make a REAL game somewhat faster (though uglier).
meh, I mostly just make sure its the type of data I expect.. if it's supposed to be a string containing only certain chars, make sure it does. if it's a freeform string, use the function(s) available for escaping it. If it's supposed to be numeric.. well, that's what is_numeric is for.
:? thing someone posted about below?)
Then I just shove them in the query the way they are if they pass the tests... Is there any other way to do this? (what's this
PHP, being one of the simplest languages to learn, unfortunately attracts HUGE numbers of really bad programmers
:)
And that's exactly why I use PHP! Err..
I know how to write good code (I think. How do you define what's good?). I know why register_globals is bad (and I have it turned off). I have no clue wtf SQL injection is, but obviously every bit coming from the user should be treated as unsafe, and I code that way too. Fucking with sites that don't is something I consider my civil duty. (Way too many rating sites allow you to put in any rating you want by a simple HTML hack. Yep, a couple ratings of like 1,000 stars is all you need to boost that [skin/program/artist/website] up to the top of the list..)
PHP is nice for quickly doing things, and being able to read it the week afterwards. Perl just scares me.
I'm an idiot. I meant to say "which then DOES establish a direct connection to the other user."
Eh, yes it does. Otherwise I'd have a lot more connections open while talking to people than just the one single connection to AOL's server. Hence the 'direct connect' button, which then DOES establish a direct connection to the server. Also, ICQ now uses modified versions of the AIM protocol(s) anyway (or at least, can run on them), so all ICQ traffic prolly goes through the servers too.
I bet the other networks are the same. MSN, Yahoo, etc. Direct connections are a bit slower to start up, and a bit more of a security risk, since you now know the other person's IP address.
I haven't read the article, but I specifically searched for OpenGL. Yes, it's nice, but it's somewaht stifling innovation at the very moment. it's flexible and lets the manufacturers add their own stuff to it, but now we're basically to vendor lockin on the video cards again. I.E. anything using recent OpenGL is probably using card-proprietary extensions, if they're really that cutting edge. Meanwhile, DirectX 'standardizes' quicker. Therefore, while I love OpenGL's portability and power, I have to say I think it's really screwing itself over at the moment. Where's the new version?! :)
They may not do much advertising for themselves, but holy shit, they certainly DO do a lot of advertising.
Yeah, I never understood the point for SMS. My phone does straight email (with attachments). (and also has GPS w/ maps, etc.) Cost me only ~$40USD too. Of course, it was a discontinued model.. newer versions take movies and stuff, and they were getting rid of the one I got to get those out the door.
Too often though people buy in to the plans that don't have the email. They only have the direct-to-phone-number type (which aren't compatible between carriers here). Quite annoying.
So, I assume therefore that you have a laptop, shielded from radiation of course, without wireless, and a separate battery charger for it, so that there's no way data can get off of it without you doing it right? I bet CD manuf's love you for the amount of discs you burn to get stuff between the two systems.
Paranoia like this is stupid. Yes, you make a phone call. This doesn't mean that your entire address book gets sent at the same time, nor does it mean that your folder full of hot hot 120x90 pr0n gets sent to people either.
Bah, privacy activists would be insane to tackle something this stupid. Who cares where the bill was last used? Ah, crap. I bought stuff at wal-mart. Oh look, another bill in my pocket came from Wendys. woops, here's one that's from Fleet Bank! Oh, here's an interesting one: Alice's Porn Shop! err..
;) What I worry about now that I've thought about it a bit more is hacking the money.. if they rely too much on the machines and not enough on the actual sight of the cashier, woops, I wiped it and that $1 now reads as a $20. Of course, if anyone ever counts your money before swiping it, you're going to jail.. but otherwise, no worries. (Unless you need a thumbprint or something else personally identifiable). That's why I wasn't worried about privacy: there's no other personally identifiable information to go along with it (at most places), though reading where you got the bill from might be rather annoying/embarassing.
Ok, maybe slightly concerned
Damn, I didn't realize they could be that small.. I don't know how durable it would be though? If there was a way to make certain that they were in the notes, I could see it being a nice way to check to see if the notes added up to the value punched in by the cashier: a kind of redundancy. It would take a while til the new notes with these things were in decent enough circulation to make this viable, but would still be interesting. Too many people would start to rely on it though, which might not be a good idea.
:)
I'm just wondering how easy it would be for something that tiny to get scratched/cut off? I'm not so worried about privacy implications (maybe I'm not paranoid enough), but I'm sure there'll be some posts of that line soon enough.
No, I haven't read the article.
tee: ~/.sig*: No such file or directory /0-9' '0-9|$*~. /a-z'`;cat $0|$c)
.. well, ok, a pound symbol. I don't know why. and if it's from the variable $c, tee doesn't work (though if I just type it in by hand it does.)
£!/bin/sh
echo $0|grep sh$||(c=`echo 3vvpnqo2zxm|tr 'a-z|$*~.
it wants to replace my # with a
(oh, and btw: I got that tutorial from 'a list apart', that's where I got the idea from.. it still has the same problems. And it brings up another slight issue I have, which is the fact that you need spacer divs. I dont' know if CSS2 putting these in for you would work (if it's supported by the browser), but right there you destroy that which CSS is intended to do. There should be a way around this (floated elements having space or something, I don't know.)
I didn't think out my post too well (bah, I blame lack of sleep, even though I'd just woken up). Anyway: CSS2 is barely supported by the things I have to use, I'm working on stuff now, so I have to try and get it to work in a decent array of browsers. That includes (and probably is limited to): Mozilla, IE5.5+, and Konqueror. I use all three on a regular basis. Waiting for CSS3 is annoying :) But I did take a look at parts of the spec after the other person replied to me, and there are some nice things happening in CSS3. Too bad I'll have grandchildren before it's supported widely. (hint: I don't have children nor a girlfriend at the moment :))
The form one: Look at the slashdot submit. Notice how the labels are right aligned, with the form controls/elements/whatever all left aligned to the same column? tables make that easy. CSS, not so much (since the div containing the labels might be too small if width specified absolutely.) There's no easy way to make the column of labels all change size when one is too big (that I can think of).
Example 3: it doesn't matter if there's a fixed height or not, as long as they're the SAME height. If one is bigger, then the next floats that come along align to the edge of that one. Therefore if the line wrapping causes the second picture in the first row to be a line longer than the others, the second row will start from underneath the third picture in the first row.
I like CSS. It does make things a lot easier. In fact, I just redid one of my friend's pages with all css, reduced the size and complexity quite a bit (I left his table column layouts since that was more invasive changes than I felt like making at the time.) What bothers me are people trying to claim that CURRENTLY SUPPORTED CSS is capable of doing anything you want, be it images in your borders (CSS3), table displays (CSS2, not well supported, and legal to be ignored), or whatever. Eventually it will get there, but sometimes it's just easier to go with the quick hack than work out all the CSS to do manage a similar effect.
damn, why the hell bother stealing them then? I don't know how much the Acura Integra would cost, but it seems like you'd have to be stupid to risk felony charges of this calibur when there's such a profit to be made even if done legally.