The ideal GUI dev tool gives you all the command-line functionality you could want, while at the same time intelligently automating some of the more mind-numbing activities
That's great. Problem is, I've never seen an ideal GUI dev tool. Not to be flip about it, but even the mega-expensive ones are lacking in one area or another. About the best that can be done for some languages / environments is find a comfortable editor and press on.
Apparently we would, in an ideal educational system, be producing cookie-cutter graduates with no discernable differences in interests. Yah, right.
People that get into the sciences get into it because they like it. People into math get into it because they like it. People into literature... you (hopefully) get the picture.
Illiterates are going to exist whether you like it or not, for a number of reasons. Some simply don't care. And some -- regretably -- simply don't grasp anything very well.
Why do the basics of human nature escape the author? Perhaps the one spends too much time staring at excel spreadsheets and grinding a personal axe. All I know is that when people are involved, there's no such thing as a magic bullet. I would have thought that someone with such credentials would have grasped THAT simple concept by now.
I guess it only affects Windows users who have to use their ISP's smtp host to send mail
There is no earthly reason that to be true. Any of the popular services avaiable under leenux are available under Win32. Many of them available from Red Hat, no less. You can even set up Apache under ME.
Please, be more specific or refrain from comments made out of ignorance.
had Verizon DSL and use a permenant email address through a friends company. I jumped ship for cable 2 months ago. If I stayed with Verizon I'd loose the address that begins Loyd@... and have to tell my friends to remember vzkex402@...
Very nice post. Too bad it's poppycock. My email address is one of my choosing @verizon.net. Too bad you didn't use the customer service options on the Verizon DSL website.
At any rate, if you think TimeWarner or whoever you have isn't going to follow similar policies, you truly ARE new to cable modems.
This thing seems to use some sort of http proxy (thats as far as I read the docs). That sucks - I already have a junkbuster/apache filter/cache set up, and I'm not giving that up just to earn some sort of weird currency and get hacked by kidd3z.
Oh well. A little reading (and that's not much since the docs are sparse ATM) reveals that you don't have to give up anything in this case. C'este la vie!
This discussion is good evidence that ignorance runs on all platforms... sigh.
I don't think many that have posted inflamitory diatribes here have bothered to investigate Gibson's work thoroughly. Even on the Nanoprobe page itself, it's stated clearly enough for anyone that cares to read. I let Gibson speak for Gibson:
Good question . . . because it is NOT for everyone.
The NanoProbe Technology, like all of my development work and the content of this web site, is highly targeted toward the Microsoft Windows client universe.
I know fully well that the Internet was first the domain of Unix and Unix-derived machines, and that such machines still dominate the server space. But, unlike most typical "Internet scanners", this system is not oriented toward locating the vulnerabilities of unknown machines.
It is first, and foremost, a Windows client security analyzer. It has this bias because we can do a significantly better job for the majority of today's Internet users -- who are Windows users -- by focusing upon the specific needs of that platform to the exclusion, where expedient, of all others.
(my emphasis)
It's called prioritizing, folx.
Gibson's aiming at this group of people for a very good reason; it's where the biggest problem is. If he can take steps to lessen that problem... we all win. Fewer vulnerabilities == a better net.
..I couldn't find any links to the nano-project on the main site..but I didn't look that hard.. maybe this initial article was describing it?
Select the SHIELDS UP link from the home page, also have the site do the port probe. A comment there hints at the nanoprobe technology.
Doesn't anyone read past the first paragraph any more?:-(
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That's great. Problem is, I've never seen an ideal GUI dev tool. Not to be flip about it, but even the mega-expensive ones are lacking in one area or another. About the best that can be done for some languages / environments is find a comfortable editor and press on.
Of course, astronomers probably wonder what the fuss is over 'free software' vs 'open source', so the balance of the universe is maintained.
People that get into the sciences get into it because they like it. People into math get into it because they like it. People into literature ... you (hopefully) get the picture.
Illiterates are going to exist whether you like it or not, for a number of reasons. Some simply don't care. And some -- regretably -- simply don't grasp anything very well.
Why do the basics of human nature escape the author? Perhaps the one spends too much time staring at excel spreadsheets and grinding a personal axe. All I know is that when people are involved, there's no such thing as a magic bullet. I would have thought that someone with such credentials would have grasped THAT simple concept by now.
Pop science lives on. Oh, hurrah.
... with outstanding manners like that. Hot tip: next time start iwth something OTHER than 'DEAR ASSWIPE ...'
There is no earthly reason that to be true. Any of the popular services avaiable under leenux are available under Win32. Many of them available from Red Hat, no less. You can even set up Apache under ME.
Please, be more specific or refrain from comments made out of ignorance.
Very nice post. Too bad it's poppycock. My email address is one of my choosing @verizon.net. Too bad you didn't use the customer service options on the Verizon DSL website.
At any rate, if you think TimeWarner or whoever you have isn't going to follow similar policies, you truly ARE new to cable modems.
This thing seems to use some sort of http proxy (thats as far as I read the docs). That sucks - I already have a junkbuster/apache filter/cache set up, and I'm not giving that up just to earn some sort of weird currency and get hacked by kidd3z.
Oh well. A little reading (and that's not much since the docs are sparse ATM) reveals that you don't have to give up anything in this case. C'este la vie!
I don't think many that have posted inflamitory diatribes here have bothered to investigate Gibson's work thoroughly. Even on the Nanoprobe page itself, it's stated clearly enough for anyone that cares to read. I let Gibson speak for Gibson:
Good question . . . because it is NOT for everyone.
The NanoProbe Technology, like all of my development work and the content of this web site, is highly targeted toward the Microsoft Windows client universe.
I know fully well that the Internet was first the domain of Unix and Unix-derived machines, and that such machines still dominate the server space. But, unlike most typical "Internet scanners", this system is not oriented toward locating the vulnerabilities of unknown machines.
It is first, and foremost, a Windows client security analyzer. It has this bias because we can do a significantly better job for the majority of today's Internet users -- who are Windows users -- by focusing upon the specific needs of that platform to the exclusion, where expedient, of all others.
(my emphasis)
It's called prioritizing, folx.
Gibson's aiming at this group of people for a very good reason; it's where the biggest problem is. If he can take steps to lessen that problem ... we all win. Fewer vulnerabilities == a better net.
Select the SHIELDS UP link from the home page, also have the site do the port probe. A comment there hints at the nanoprobe technology. Doesn't anyone read past the first paragraph any more? :-(