So far, WINE has appeared to be mostly focused on games
If only!
I've only got two Windows games (Civ III and C&C Red Alert), but neither of them worked for me under Wine. And I spent a whole day trying as well, which is a lot longer than most people would bother.
It's not like they're mega high tech games, either. I dread to think how Wine would react if I tried to run a more recent game with it.
I've used SlickEdit for a while, and it is a very nice tool (even if we call it SlackEdit at the office). Their Diff tools (DiffZilla, etc) are probably the best I've used anywhere.
I've only had the chance to use it under Windows, but I understand there's Unix and Linux versions available too.
My opinion: If you're going to pay for an editor, this is a good one to pick.
When it comes to refactoring, I can't comment - I've not used this version, so the feature is new to me. It sounds like an interesting feature, but in honesty, I can't see us making much use of it.
That sounds like a singularly pointless excersise, given that Opera can spoof as MSIE.
On the bright side, at least they know about Opera -- I'd rather see this than a page that hasn't been tested under anything other than MSIE and doesn't work properly, or even worse, a page that would work just fine, but tries to be clever and check your browser for compatibility before letting you in, but doesn't know about anything other than MSIE. Grrr.
The injury is not caused by *what* you do, but how often you do it.
Any user interface method will suffer from this in exactly the same way - if you spend too much time doing the same action, you will cause damage - tennis players and coal miners will tell you that they also suffer.
The only long term solution is to vary your actions. (I guess I'm saying you should tear yourself away from the computer for a few minutes each day, but I know that's asking a lot of some folk here;))
This is a good point - is this attack still possible in IPv6? If not, could this be the killer event that make the switch seem like a good idea to all the companies that have been refusing to change.
(if the hack is still possible in IP6, then I can only ask *why*??, since the basic principles of the flaw have been known for a long time)
In the early days of the web, everyone had homepages with their chosen host that went something like http://www.hostname.com/users/mysite/ or for the lucky ones http://mysite.hostname.com/
Then we all realised that the only way for our sites to be taken seriously was to buy a domain name for them, so we changed to http://mysite.com/
Now this proposal comes along with.yahoo,.google,.whateverelse, and suddenly we'll be back to those old days. Domains on some of the new TLDs will be given away, and those ones will get exactly the same reputation as the current Geocities/Tripod type sites.
Others will be sold for extortionate prices, and there will hardly be any of them sold (like.tv). Most of the others will be snapped up by porn/spam/fraud operators, and once they get associated with them, no-one else will touch them with a bargepole (.biz anyone?).
If we're really lucky, there might be a handful of companies that get themselves a unique-sounding domain out of it, but I don't see how that's going to be worth all the wasted time and effort that this whole saga will cause.
The only reall effect of this will be to devalue the domain levels. And the only people who will benefit will be the registrars for the new TLDs.
Do yourself a favour: don't make that move unless you really know you want to.
After all this has blown over and you're stuck on a lower spec host, you'll be wishing you could have just stuck it out for a while.
More seriously, the two times I've changed web hosts have been the cause of more problems for me than anything else I've ever done online. I've had to fight all the way to get domains transferred properly from one company to another. and I've still got one that is in limbo that I'll probably never be able to use again.
One company updated the DNS to point to the new host, but never released the tags. I was too inexperienced to know the difference until it all went wrong when the new host upgraded my server. They'd gone bust in the meanwhile, and the tags were in limbo - no-one had the authority to release them (except the registrars, who weren't interested).
The second company released the tags (after I'd double checked), but didn't update the billing details, so I never got a renewal notice until it was too late... by which time a domain squatter had stolen one of my domains.
So my advice, from bitter experience, is to stick with what you've got, unless you're absolutely certain. And if you do move, make sure you go to the right place, because if there's anything worse than moving once, it's moving twice.
It may be unpickable, but using fibre-optics means it requires a power supply, which means it is still vunerable.
Many locking mechanisms require power, and if the power fails, there are only two possibilities: either it will be locked shut and unopenable, or it will have a fail-safe mechanism to unlock automatically if the power fails.
Either way, it leaves itself open to anyone who wants to cause trouble.
In any case, any door that people will be behind will necessitate the latter, as otherwise they could get locked in during a fire, which means that anyone wanting to gain access only needs to cut the power and they're in.
This means that GUI for our-favorite-web-browser-that's-also-named-after a-helicopter won't have to change it's name suddenly and unexpectedly like all those other open source programs that had nothing to do with whatever else it was that had the same name first.
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So far, WINE has appeared to be mostly focused on games
If only!
I've only got two Windows games (Civ III and C&C Red Alert), but neither of them worked for me under Wine. And I spent a whole day trying as well, which is a lot longer than most people would bother.
It's not like they're mega high tech games, either. I dread to think how Wine would react if I tried to run a more recent game with it.
I've used SlickEdit for a while, and it is a very nice tool (even if we call it SlackEdit at the office). Their Diff tools (DiffZilla, etc) are probably the best I've used anywhere.
I've only had the chance to use it under Windows, but I understand there's Unix and Linux versions available too.
My opinion: If you're going to pay for an editor, this is a good one to pick.
When it comes to refactoring, I can't comment - I've not used this version, so the feature is new to me. It sounds like an interesting feature, but in honesty, I can't see us making much use of it.
That sounds like a singularly pointless excersise, given that Opera can spoof as MSIE.
On the bright side, at least they know about Opera -- I'd rather see this than a page that hasn't been tested under anything other than MSIE and doesn't work properly, or even worse, a page that would work just fine, but tries to be clever and check your browser for compatibility before letting you in, but doesn't know about anything other than MSIE. Grrr.
That way, credible sites stop doing it.
Credible sites already don't do it.
The injury is not caused by *what* you do, but how often you do it.
;))
Any user interface method will suffer from this in exactly the same way - if you spend too much time doing the same action, you will cause damage - tennis players and coal miners will tell you that they also suffer.
The only long term solution is to vary your actions. (I guess I'm saying you should tear yourself away from the computer for a few minutes each day, but I know that's asking a lot of some folk here
You want puns?
I'd say they just took a tern for the worst.
A lead-free motherboard? No leads? How am I going to plug anything into it?
Or do they mean no lead-time...? it gets delivered as soon as you order it. Now that would be nice.
Not to be pedantic or anything but pencils use graphite, not lead.
:)
In this case, would that be pendantic?
This is a good point - is this attack still possible in IPv6? If not, could this be the killer event that make the switch seem like a good idea to all the companies that have been refusing to change.
(if the hack is still possible in IP6, then I can only ask *why*??, since the basic principles of the flaw have been known for a long time)
Who said XM is a classic format?
.mod file then it ain't worthy of the name Tracker!
Bah!
If it's ain't an original
for a healthy democracy, it's probably better to have this in the open.
For a really healthy democracy, you'd need to get rid of political donations completely.
Oh no! I only installed SuSE 9.0 last weekend... now I've got to start all over again??! :(
(well, it would be nice if there was a smoother upgrade path than reloading the whole OS - it's a big download)
In the early days of the web, everyone had homepages with their chosen host that went something like http://www.hostname.com/users/mysite/ or for the lucky ones http://mysite.hostname.com/
.yahoo, .google, .whateverelse, and suddenly we'll be back to those old days. Domains on some of the new TLDs will be given away, and those ones will get exactly the same reputation as the current Geocities/Tripod type sites.
.tv). Most of the others will be snapped up by porn/spam/fraud operators, and once they get associated with them, no-one else will touch them with a bargepole (.biz anyone?).
Then we all realised that the only way for our sites to be taken seriously was to buy a domain name for them, so we changed to http://mysite.com/
Now this proposal comes along with
Others will be sold for extortionate prices, and there will hardly be any of them sold (like
If we're really lucky, there might be a handful of companies that get themselves a unique-sounding domain out of it, but I don't see how that's going to be worth all the wasted time and effort that this whole saga will cause.
The only reall effect of this will be to devalue the domain levels. And the only people who will benefit will be the registrars for the new TLDs.
Uh... you do know that the bonsai kittens was a hoax... don't you?
Do yourself a favour: don't make that move unless you really know you want to.
After all this has blown over and you're stuck on a lower spec host, you'll be wishing you could have just stuck it out for a while.
More seriously, the two times I've changed web hosts have been the cause of more problems for me than anything else I've ever done online. I've had to fight all the way to get domains transferred properly from one company to another. and I've still got one that is in limbo that I'll probably never be able to use again.
One company updated the DNS to point to the new host, but never released the tags. I was too inexperienced to know the difference until it all went wrong when the new host upgraded my server. They'd gone bust in the meanwhile, and the tags were in limbo - no-one had the authority to release them (except the registrars, who weren't interested).
The second company released the tags (after I'd double checked), but didn't update the billing details, so I never got a renewal notice until it was too late... by which time a domain squatter had stolen one of my domains.
So my advice, from bitter experience, is to stick with what you've got, unless you're absolutely certain. And if you do move, make sure you go to the right place, because if there's anything worse than moving once, it's moving twice.
Hemlock (n): A poisonous sewing maching component.
Ah yes. *That*, my friends, is irony. :-D
Well, at least this way it's going to take us longer to crash their server.
You really need to talk to the FSF, because they will have the resources and the knowledge to help you.
Bah. No-one appreciates a bad pun any more. ;)
The two comets collide, and the resulting super-comet makes a NEATly-LINEAR path directly toward Earth. :-o
It may be unpickable, but using fibre-optics means it requires a power supply, which means it is still vunerable.
Many locking mechanisms require power, and if the power fails, there are only two possibilities: either it will be locked shut and unopenable, or it will have a fail-safe mechanism to unlock automatically if the power fails.
Either way, it leaves itself open to anyone who wants to cause trouble.
In any case, any door that people will be behind will necessitate the latter, as otherwise they could get locked in during a fire, which means that anyone wanting to gain access only needs to cut the power and they're in.
No; it's a cheap way to make yourself an easy target for DoS.
Yay!
This means that GUI for our-favorite-web-browser-that's-also-named-after a-helicopter won't have to change it's name suddenly and unexpectedly like all those other open source programs that had nothing to do with whatever else it was that had the same name first.
Uh. Yeah. Good news, that.
Hey! Spoiler alert. :-( Some of us are still watching the previous season (...you insensitive clod)