It's only because of professional webdesigners trying to maximize usability, time on site, ad clicks, and return on investment that we've moved to the sleek look of what is web 2.0
Where you too can download 600k of Javascript, flash, and animated GIFs to view a simple page of text that actually came up faster over my 33.6k modem than it does over my 256k DSL.
The days when you can trust all application developers to play nice are gone.
They were gone before the Internet was called the Internet.
If you install every application that shows up on your computer without paying any attention to what you're getting... you're going to be sorry. I've cleaned up enough malware from people's computers over the past twenty years to know that.
If an application has the ability to do useful things, it has the ability to do dangerous things. Sandboxing applications while still letting them be useful is no more than rough mitigation, and no alternative to common sense. The soft chewy center will always be with us on any system containing non-volatile state... even the minimal state associated with web applets has been exploited.
Security is like sex. Once you're penetrated you're fucked.
The biggest problem with Linux documentation is the use of Info files instead of man pages. Yes, OK, it was cool that they were working on an early hypertext... but they did such a horrible job of it that flat files in/usr/share/man are more useful.
The biggest problem for desktops are custom interfaces and components that make self-repair impossible. The ideal solution is build-your-own.
Options:
* Build your own using a quality motherboard like ASUS. * Get a screwdriver shop like Directron or MWave to build you one. * Many HP Pavilions seem to be pretty much "build your owns" using HP motherboards, if you want a name brand.
For laptops, Thinkpads have the warmest place in my heart, but HP and Toshiba also make decent products, Sony makes great boutique laptops, and ASUS (see above) are making laptops now.
Microsoft's general attitude to API design is so bad that it can only be described as wilful ignorance.
That's always been the case. They honestly don't believe that it matters whether an API is well designed, let alone beautiful. What's worse, they've managed to infect better designed systems with their half-baked APIs through imitation and even deliberate reimplementation.
The company I was working for went into (temporary) bankruptcy right as the dot-bomb was hitting, and massive amounts of (unpaid) overtime didn't leave me with much spare energy for working on anything in my free time.
If you just have to pick one, I would wait on this decision until the Oracle-Sun deal is through and see what Oracle does. I don't think either is likely to go away any time soon, though, and if OpenSolaris is really open source it *would* be forked if Oracle tried to close it.
Given that you've already tried three different Linux distros, though, why not try both? You're going to be the best judge of what your requirements are.
Disclaimer: I'm an ex-FreeBSD-committer, so I have a dog in the hunt.
MS thought they were being safe, like replacing single quotes with double before making an INSERT statement for a database, or removing less-than or greater than characters to prevent someone embedding tags everywhere.
I understand what they were trying to do. It's like every idiot web designer who manages to make it impossible for people named "d'Agostino" (or for that matter "da Silva") to register at their web site. This whole approach has been known to be made of 100% undiluted organic FAIL for a decade. There is no lolcat facepalm epic enough for this.
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Think about how websites used to look in 1998.
Let's see. Small, fast, efficient, readable.
It's only because of professional webdesigners trying to maximize usability, time on site, ad clicks, and return on investment that we've moved to the sleek look of what is web 2.0
Where you too can download 600k of Javascript, flash, and animated GIFs to view a simple page of text that actually came up faster over my 33.6k modem than it does over my 256k DSL.
You won't need to check news that day, your newspaper won't simply arrive since the Quark/Indesign Machine they use won't function.
What's a newspaper?
Shouldn't Apple be showing the rest of the industry how it's done?
You want to mind meld Steve Jobs and Theo Deraadt?
The days when you can trust all application developers to play nice are gone.
They were gone before the Internet was called the Internet.
If you install every application that shows up on your computer without paying any attention to what you're getting... you're going to be sorry. I've cleaned up enough malware from people's computers over the past twenty years to know that.
If an application has the ability to do useful things, it has the ability to do dangerous things. Sandboxing applications while still letting them be useful is no more than rough mitigation, and no alternative to common sense. The soft chewy center will always be with us on any system containing non-volatile state... even the minimal state associated with web applets has been exploited.
Security is like sex. Once you're penetrated you're fucked.
You install an application on your computer. That application has access to stuff stored on your computer. This is news?
Wake us up when you have a remote exploit.
The biggest problem with Linux documentation is the use of Info files instead of man pages. Yes, OK, it was cool that they were working on an early hypertext... but they did such a horrible job of it that flat files in /usr/share/man are more useful.
Maybe they can do hyperthreading in software.
*rimshot*
Even better! :) :) :)
The biggest problem for desktops are custom interfaces and components that make self-repair impossible. The ideal solution is build-your-own.
Options:
* Build your own using a quality motherboard like ASUS.
* Get a screwdriver shop like Directron or MWave to build you one.
* Many HP Pavilions seem to be pretty much "build your owns" using HP motherboards, if you want a name brand.
For laptops, Thinkpads have the warmest place in my heart, but HP and Toshiba also make decent products, Sony makes great boutique laptops, and ASUS (see above) are making laptops now.
That's what I thought. It wasn't actually a crime because that kind of thing is what Eve Online is all about.
OK, you know how nobody understands the Infield Fly Rule in Baseball?
Imagine a game where all the rules are like that.
Wasn't it the CEO of a virtual company in Eve Online, not the CEO of the company itself? Or am I getting my incidents mixed up?
I don't have any nice things anyway.
GWAN in user space is faster than IIS in the kernel on Windows. When they port to Linux it should toast IIS nicely.
- 2-5 times CPU time compared to C, even with JIT compilation.
That was a long time ago. And the important part was the "Bell Labs".
It's still the case at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories.
Microsoft's general attitude to API design is so bad that it can only be described as wilful ignorance.
That's always been the case. They honestly don't believe that it matters whether an API is well designed, let alone beautiful. What's worse, they've managed to infect better designed systems with their half-baked APIs through imitation and even deliberate reimplementation.
That's THE title at Bell Labs. If it's good enough for Dennis it's good enough for me.
Just curious: why are you no longer a committer?
The company I was working for went into (temporary) bankruptcy right as the dot-bomb was hitting, and massive amounts of (unpaid) overtime didn't leave me with much spare energy for working on anything in my free time.
If you just have to pick one, I would wait on this decision until the Oracle-Sun deal is through and see what Oracle does. I don't think either is likely to go away any time soon, though, and if OpenSolaris is really open source it *would* be forked if Oracle tried to close it.
Given that you've already tried three different Linux distros, though, why not try both? You're going to be the best judge of what your requirements are.
Disclaimer: I'm an ex-FreeBSD-committer, so I have a dog in the hunt.
This is even more stupid than their attempt to sell antivirus for Palm OS.
There is no mechanism for transmission between one iPhone and another UNLESS the iPhone is jailbroken.
So Symantec only needs to write antivirus for jailbroken iPhones. And Apple would have no way to prevent them. So what's their problem?
Hexapodia is the key insight.
MS thought they were being safe, like replacing single quotes with double before making an INSERT statement for a database, or removing less-than or greater than characters to prevent someone embedding tags everywhere.
I understand what they were trying to do. It's like every idiot web designer who manages to make it impossible for people named "d'Agostino" (or for that matter "da Silva") to register at their web site. This whole approach has been known to be made of 100% undiluted organic FAIL for a decade. There is no lolcat facepalm epic enough for this.
The lack of a preferred frame of reference at normal energy densities seems to be pretty sound, and this theory doesn't eliminate that.
So you're basically saying causality isn't all it's cracked up to be, then?