I disagree. Input sanitation is good for protecting the application itself (reddit's server in this case). What is required is output sanitation, to protect the next recipients of the data. I have no objection to seeing people write <%74%63%73 etc. etc. on web fora - it lets me know what they're trying to do.
What variety of scrollbar does the pulldown require? Is it a Windows scrollbar? Nope. Is it a Gtk scrollbar? Nope. A KDE scrollbar? Nope. A Sun CDE scrollbar, even? Nope.
Help me out here - what other graphical environments are there?...
There's some closed stuff, the system state stuff inherited from the symbian phones, that's still closed source. Much of it is being rewritten presumably so that it can be opened soon.
The nitty-gritty power management stuff - that's in the kernel, and it's under GPL. Patches are normally pushed towards linux-omap-pm.git, obviously.
The actual article, rather than this recent reportage thereon, seems to be from may: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/apple-vs-microsoft-a-website-usability-study/
Look down at point 3, and the scroll-bar visible in the microsoft.com screenshot. I think that should tell you what his prefered flavour of fanboyism is...
If the other distro doesn't carry the hardware-specific drivers/patches which Nokia has made available to the appropriate subsystem maintainers, then you're right, you'll not have a fully functioning device. However, that's your own fault for chosing that distro, not Nokia's. I know stuff's gone to linux-input, linux-arm, linux-omap, linux-fs, linux-crypto and Linus's mainline in the last couple of months.
What makes you think it's a lousy keyboard? I've been using it for ages, and I now love it. At first I thought it was too small to be practical, but typing's all motor memory, and, apart from a few bizarre chords that I have to stretch for, I'm at least as quick on the n900 keyboard as I am on this lousy physical laptop keypad.
(I will admit to loving the responsiveness of the on-screen virtual keypad too, I must add, but only my workmates will know why...)
"The fact that the TwIP program requires an IP stack to work is..."... false.
You're confused that he uses a raw network interface to test it, but he could just have easily have done something like./twip </dev/ttyS0 >/dev/ttyS0 instead. All he requires is a link layer that trasnmits a stream of bytes in tact.
And your pedantry regarding calling the Header Checksum both the IP checksum and the ICMP checksum is misplaced too. Look at the two relevant RFCs - both of them define the header to have a Header Checksum, and therefore this field *is* the header checksum for both of the protocols. 'IP checksum' and 'ICMP checksum' isn't the formal name of either of them, but both are unambiguous ways of refering to the same thing.
Visual inspection (i.e. not touched a compiler) says to me:
Comma-up the loop into 1 expression and bin the {}? Replace 65280 with -256? for(;read(0,s,140);) or while(read(0,s,140)) to save a ; That's 4 more, after that it's a bit tricky.
(Of course, unsigned's aleady been spotted as toast too, which can be taken as read.)
I can see why you say that - it is certainly more than a bit creepy. I think it's not lifelike enough to have reached any uncanny valley for me. (I'm not sure I have one, I've never seen anything that inhabits it. Yet.)
Of course, everyone gets their own pleasure from different aspects of the program. And I do like your analogy. (And I think perhaps one of my historical ex-girlfriends was rather like Donna, which might be part of the reason I had no patience and detuned her. Emotional basket case, hehehe, yup. My current g/f has just said "I couldn't get past her character enough to like her character", which I think sums up my view too.)
To be honest, when the Ecclestone/Tyler governor had spun up and was spinning smoothly (it took a while to work out what the dynamic was, and what it should be), I was prepared to list Ecclestone as my #2 favourite doctor ever. And as someone whe remembers watching The Seeds of Doom partially hidden behind the sofa, I think that's quite a bold statement. I also had the prejudice that any re-invention of the program was going to be crap. It wasn't.
As long as the writers remember that 30-40+-year-old fans still exist, and not piss us off completely, I'll still ride the lows between the highs.
Strangely, upon watching all doctors from Jon Pertwee to the current day over the last few years, I've come to the conclusion that, while his lows were dreadful, McCoy wasn't actually all that bad. I don't remember him first time round, as I turned off mid-Colin. I can't remember any particular stories where McCoy was solid (I never remember names of anything), alas, but can follow up to this in 3 or 4 years time when I get round to watching them again;-)
I'm 37, and, being a Brit, I watched all the old ones as they were aired. First memories are of Tom Baker, in particular the Seeds of Doom. (Calculate my age then!) Turned off mid Colin Baker.
My g/f is 35, and, being a Yank, remembers reruns shown on American stations from the 80s. Her first memories are therefore of Jon Pertwee, thus predating mine, when it was aired in the 80s some time. (We have her (parents') VHS videos of those, and still watch them.)
Your conclusion is a fair one much of the time. If you can put up with very low budget 60s/70s sci-fi, I recommend you watch the early ones, and get a feel for its roots. You may find it slow and clunky, which it often was, but in it certainly had more character than much of today's stuff.
I'm an unashamed fanboy, and I think almost everything to do with Donna [censored] Noble was execrable. And Tennant's Doctor getting all wet because of how marvelous she was when she was just being a tawdry character from a primary-school-level comic was an insult to long-time viewers' intelligence. When Ecclestone appeared I thought that Dr. Who had been resurrected, or regenerated, as good as in its prime. RTD and Tennant, and the Noble companion, have blasted that idea out of the water. Don't get me wrong, Freeman was OK in her companion role, and the Rose character was wonderfully rendered by Piper, one of the best companions ever. But Tennant and Noble under RTD make Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford look like a winning combo. All IMHO, of course.
I have all Dr Who dating back to Pertwee on VHS, and I watch them quite regularly in rotation (I guess it takes me 5-10 years to do all 3 decades, I don't like to rush). The worst ones historically (e.g. Delta and the Bannermen) were atrocious, but the recent bad ones (final 2 parts of the recent series) were just as bad, but funded by a way higher budget and covered in brash special effects (such as the Dalek assimilating the human in order to evolve). That makes them relatively worse. All IMHO, of course.
When throwing a dart at a dartboard, do you think that the outcome "the dart lands on the treble 20" is/a priori/ almost impossible? If so, you're weird. Just because it's a continuous probability distribution, it doesn't mean that everything's almost impossible, basically only sets of zero measure will be almost impossible. "Jetisoned blob gravitationally captured as a moon" is not a set of zero measure.
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I disagree. Input sanitation is good for protecting the application itself (reddit's server in this case). What is required is output sanitation, to protect the next recipients of the data. I have no objection to seeing people write <%74%63%73 etc. etc. on web fora - it lets me know what they're trying to do.
What variety of scrollbar does the pulldown require?
...
Is it a Windows scrollbar? Nope.
Is it a Gtk scrollbar? Nope.
A KDE scrollbar? Nope.
A Sun CDE scrollbar, even? Nope.
Help me out here - what other graphical environments are there?
There's some closed stuff, the system state stuff inherited from the symbian phones, that's still closed source. Much of it is being rewritten presumably so that it can be opened soon.
The nitty-gritty power management stuff - that's in the kernel, and it's under GPL. Patches are normally pushed towards linux-omap-pm.git, obviously.
The actual article, rather than this recent reportage thereon, seems to be from may:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/apple-vs-microsoft-a-website-usability-study/
Look down at point 3, and the scroll-bar visible in the microsoft.com screenshot. I think that should tell you what his prefered flavour of fanboyism is...
The web designer behind this company:
http://www.pixelshell.com/guides.php
Remember, boys and girls - sidebar stuff goes - - - - - - - - -> here.
If the other distro doesn't carry the hardware-specific drivers/patches which Nokia has made available to the appropriate subsystem maintainers, then you're right, you'll not have a fully functioning device. However, that's your own fault for chosing that distro, not Nokia's. I know stuff's gone to linux-input, linux-arm, linux-omap, linux-fs, linux-crypto and Linus's mainline in the last couple of months.
What makes you think it's a lousy keyboard? I've been using it for ages, and I now love it. At first I thought it was too small to be practical, but typing's all motor memory, and, apart from a few bizarre chords that I have to stretch for, I'm at least as quick on the n900 keyboard as I am on this lousy physical laptop keypad.
(I will admit to loving the responsiveness of the on-screen virtual keypad too, I must add, but only my workmates will know why...)
"The fact that the TwIP program requires an IP stack to work is ..." ... false.
./twip < /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/ttyS0 instead. All he requires is a link layer that trasnmits a stream of bytes in tact.
You're confused that he uses a raw network interface to test it, but he could just have easily have done something like
And your pedantry regarding calling the Header Checksum both the IP checksum and the ICMP checksum is misplaced too. Look at the two relevant RFCs - both of them define the header to have a Header Checksum, and therefore this field *is* the header checksum for both of the protocols. 'IP checksum' and 'ICMP checksum' isn't the formal name of either of them, but both are unambiguous ways of refering to the same thing.
Visual inspection (i.e. not touched a compiler) says to me:
Comma-up the loop into 1 expression and bin the {}?
Replace 65280 with -256?
for(;read(0,s,140);) or while(read(0,s,140)) to save a ;
That's 4 more, after that it's a bit tricky.
(Of course, unsigned's aleady been spotted as toast too, which can be taken as read.)
It's indeed a transmitter - for playing through the car stereo, for example.
Vorbis is surrounded by IP FUD. All the guys with deep pockets are scared of it.
However, gstreamer's plugin-based, so it should eventually be possible to find community support for the standard.
Moomintrolls?
I ought to mention the CSS Zen Compost Heap then, as that never gets any references! (OK, that's blatent self-promotion, I won't deny it.)
I can see why you say that - it is certainly more than a bit creepy. I think it's not lifelike enough to have reached any uncanny valley for me. (I'm not sure I have one, I've never seen anything that inhabits it. Yet.)
And I felt sorry for BigDog after that kick. Great piece of engineering. Let's hope it doesn't become intelligent enough to kick back!
Of course, everyone gets their own pleasure from different aspects of the program. And I do like your analogy. (And I think perhaps one of my historical ex-girlfriends was rather like Donna, which might be part of the reason I had no patience and detuned her. Emotional basket case, hehehe, yup. My current g/f has just said "I couldn't get past her character enough to like her character", which I think sums up my view too.)
To be honest, when the Ecclestone/Tyler governor had spun up and was spinning smoothly (it took a while to work out what the dynamic was, and what it should be), I was prepared to list Ecclestone as my #2 favourite doctor ever. And as someone whe remembers watching The Seeds of Doom partially hidden behind the sofa, I think that's quite a bold statement. I also had the prejudice that any re-invention of the program was going to be crap. It wasn't.
As long as the writers remember that 30-40+-year-old fans still exist, and not piss us off completely, I'll still ride the lows between the highs.
Crossing fingers...
Strangely, upon watching all doctors from Jon Pertwee to the current day over the last few years, I've come to the conclusion that, while his lows were dreadful, McCoy wasn't actually all that bad. I don't remember him first time round, as I turned off mid-Colin. I can't remember any particular stories where McCoy was solid (I never remember names of anything), alas, but can follow up to this in 3 or 4 years time when I get round to watching them again ;-)
I'm 37, and, being a Brit, I watched all the old ones as they were aired. First memories are of Tom Baker, in particular the Seeds of Doom. (Calculate my age then!) Turned off mid Colin Baker.
My g/f is 35, and, being a Yank, remembers reruns shown on American stations from the 80s. Her first memories are therefore of Jon Pertwee, thus predating mine, when it was aired in the 80s some time. (We have her (parents') VHS videos of those, and still watch them.)
Your conclusion is a fair one much of the time. If you can put up with very low budget 60s/70s sci-fi, I recommend you watch the early ones, and get a feel for its roots. You may find it slow and clunky, which it often was, but in it certainly had more character than much of today's stuff.
Why, oh why, oh why, couldn't you have been the guy writing the final 2 episodes for the last DW series? RTD's a [censored].
I'm an unashamed fanboy, and I think almost everything to do with Donna [censored] Noble was execrable. And Tennant's Doctor getting all wet because of how marvelous she was when she was just being a tawdry character from a primary-school-level comic was an insult to long-time viewers' intelligence. When Ecclestone appeared I thought that Dr. Who had been resurrected, or regenerated, as good as in its prime. RTD and Tennant, and the Noble companion, have blasted that idea out of the water. Don't get me wrong, Freeman was OK in her companion role, and the Rose character was wonderfully rendered by Piper, one of the best companions ever. But Tennant and Noble under RTD make Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford look like a winning combo. All IMHO, of course.
Have you forgotten Pertwee fencing with the Master?
They tried that - and it sucked so bad.
I have all Dr Who dating back to Pertwee on VHS, and I watch them quite regularly in rotation (I guess it takes me 5-10 years to do all 3 decades, I don't like to rush). The worst ones historically (e.g. Delta and the Bannermen) were atrocious, but the recent bad ones (final 2 parts of the recent series) were just as bad, but funded by a way higher budget and covered in brash special effects (such as the Dalek assimilating the human in order to evolve). That makes them relatively worse. All IMHO, of course.
"The only three things you may want to run as both root and regular user are: 1. network analyzer; 2. shell; 3. text editor"
...
You're so right. I know that as root I never ever need to run ls, cat, grep, find, sort, sed, split, more, gzip, tar, mv, cp, perl,
When throwing a dart at a dartboard, do you think that the outcome "the dart lands on the treble 20" is /a priori/ almost impossible? If so, you're weird. Just because it's a continuous probability distribution, it doesn't mean that everything's almost impossible, basically only sets of zero measure will be almost impossible. "Jetisoned blob gravitationally captured as a moon" is not a set of zero measure.
Forth is always a good substitute if you don't like brackets and don't want to tackly your fears head on.