How many of these idiots understand the implications of a Verisign-signed binary?
Windows lets you download it and doesn't stop you from installing one that doesn't. I booted XP and checked -- the prompts for downloading/installing Firefox are EXACTLY THE SAME as downloading/installing Microsoft's signed binaries.
Sure, you can limit IE to not download unsigned binaries, but you can't limit Windows from running unsigned binaries from the My Computer zone, but the default configuration isn't that way, and the idiots won't turn that on.
You're falling for the Microsoft fud that SIGNED ACTIVEX components, only, will run in XPSP2, but FireFox won't run the at all. You're comparing downloaded exes versus ActiveX.
To view the digital signatures in an executable you have to right click it, view properties, view Digital Signatures, then click a "Details" button.
I just check several downloads of executables from Microsoft.com (which is similar to the Firefox setup package). None display the digital signature in the download dialog. Only ActiveX programs display the signature -- and people click yes to that all the time. Or else you do you think all that spyware gets there?
I don't give a rat's ass if people understand it or not: it's there, and Firefox supports other platforms besides Windows. They don't do it the Windows way.
Perhaps you should write an addon for Windows that checks MD5sums when you download.
Everybody who thinks IE is more secure than Firefox raise your hands. The bigger the lie, the more people will fall for it.
Other platforms do not use Microsoft's propritary technology ("Authenticode") for signing binaries. They use MD5sums. MD5Sums are available for firefox (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/1.0/MD5SUMS) all firefox releases.
Moreover, they give you this little thing called the SOURCE CODE that let's you be pretty darn sure what you're running. Read the code, and compile it yourself, or trust others to look at the code and check MD5 signatures.
Well, I definitely bought Far Cry, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, and yesterday I bought Vampires to see what else the new engine could do. I probably bought about 2 others.
At $50 each that's $300. I probably spent $250. I'm sure I saw fewer than 10 movies (way fewer) -- no more than $50.
My algorithms class was like this. I aced every test but didn't complete the Travelling Salesman program successfully. I got an "incomplete" and had to come to summer school. Boy was I mad at the time but I see now why they did it. All or nothing.
Your first job is all about who you know. My college math prof.'s wife had a computer programming company; that's how I got my first job.
You're not going to be rich. You're just going to be a working stiff like everybody else.
Still, I'd listen to your dad. A really boring degree is a plus. It communicates to the rest of the world that you are willing to do will shit boring things, which is the value they're looking for.
Major in Business and take a lot of programming courses.
One of the advantages to Gnome's nazi UI guidelines is they provide a large # of attractive stock icons, and highly encourage you to use *only* those.
As a non-artist programmer that's what I do. Retreat into non-creativity, use the stock icons for folders. Where you can be creative is thinking about how to use that cool "Folder" icon to mean an entity in your application, and how you can use that cool "Tools" icon to invoke an operation.
For your application Icon just use some tiny font and an icon editor to make a text based icon on a solid color background. Everything else will look lame.
If you have greater needs, enlist the services of someone with skill.
Nobody has to use a Warezed version of Visual Studio. Between the.NET SDK, and the Visual C++ 7.1 Toolkit, and the PlatformSDK, you can download all the tools you need to build (including the optimizing C compiler) for free.
Even if you have a legal copy of Visual Studio you should be doing your automated build process with the free tools anyway.
Not according to this: http://www.levenez.com/windows/history.html #05
I started college in the Fall of '89 and bought a copy of Win3.0 my spring semester, freshman year: it came out in May 22, 1990. Wierd though because I *know* I fooled my parents into thinking the $50 was a school textbook, which would mean I bought it in Februrary.
Windows 1.0 came out in I think 1984, Windows 3.0 came out in 1989. How many large-scale industrial contracts did Windows win then? Zero. How did Windows get to this point? It started with replacing departmental level servers and workgroups, and proved itself there for ten years or so.
So, Linux should do the same. Can't expect to be birthed ready to run a marathon.
It adds quite a bit to the discussion: it's why you're not going to be able to go to "one" place and see anything.
It means the whole world, whether you see this as an all-powerful federal government or a federation of independent actors. You have to get your worldview straight.
There are 50 individual elections, which mean *nothing* as to who is president. They are simply guidances for the electoral college: who can do whatever they like.
I don't like reading documents in OpenOffice, in Windows or Linux. OO always inserts extra page breaks, and the fonts just look wierd and ugly.
I for one do *not* find OpenOffice an adequate replacement for Word. It's fine to create documents in their own right in OO, but every.doc file I've needed to open for business, or what have you, has looked kinda retarded in OO. You get the gist of it, it just looks "wrong" and there are extra page breaks.
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Yeah, it totally doesn't work for OpenBSD, at all.
How many of these idiots understand the implications of a Verisign-signed binary?
Windows lets you download it and doesn't stop you from installing one that doesn't. I booted XP and checked -- the prompts for downloading/installing Firefox are EXACTLY THE SAME as downloading/installing Microsoft's signed binaries.
Sure, you can limit IE to not download unsigned binaries, but you can't limit Windows from running unsigned binaries from the My Computer zone, but the default configuration isn't that way, and the idiots won't turn that on.
You're falling for the Microsoft fud that SIGNED ACTIVEX components, only, will run in XPSP2, but FireFox won't run the at all. You're comparing downloaded exes versus ActiveX.
To view the digital signatures in an executable you have to right click it, view properties, view Digital Signatures, then click a "Details" button.
I just check several downloads of executables from Microsoft.com (which is similar to the Firefox setup package). None display the digital signature in the download dialog. Only ActiveX programs display the signature -- and people click yes to that all the time. Or else you do you think all that spyware gets there?
I don't give a rat's ass if people understand it or not: it's there, and Firefox supports other platforms besides Windows. They don't do it the Windows way.
Perhaps you should write an addon for Windows that checks MD5sums when you download.
Everybody who thinks IE is more secure than Firefox raise your hands. The bigger the lie, the more people will fall for it.
Other platforms do not use Microsoft's propritary technology ("Authenticode") for signing binaries. They use MD5sums. MD5Sums are available for firefox (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/1.0/MD5SUMS) all firefox releases.
Moreover, they give you this little thing called the SOURCE CODE that let's you be pretty darn sure what you're running. Read the code, and compile it yourself, or trust others to look at the code and check MD5 signatures.
Sure. All that burning in hell you're going to be doing for however you got that filthy lucre, you deserve an extra cookie on the flight.
Well, I definitely bought Far Cry, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, and yesterday I bought Vampires to see what else the new engine could do. I probably bought about 2 others.
At $50 each that's $300. I probably spent $250. I'm sure I saw fewer than 10 movies (way fewer) -- no more than $50.
The definition is not a definition of spam. The definition is a definition of "bulk unsolicited commercial e-mail."
My algorithms class was like this. I aced every test but didn't complete the Travelling Salesman program successfully. I got an "incomplete" and had to come to summer school. Boy was I mad at the time but I see now why they did it. All or nothing.
Windows build system is heavily built on Perl; a lot of the devs use vi and emacs; and SourceForge is a fork of a commercial CVS-like system.
I could probably think of a few more.
Has anybody figured out how to sneak a goatse.cx link into images.google.com? The code would show it going to [google.com] and people would click it.
I was scared to death that's what this was going to be.
Of course you should use TCP interface to talk to DB from Web servers and not named pipes.
Your first job is all about who you know.
My college math prof.'s wife had a computer programming company; that's how I got my first job.
You're not going to be rich. You're just going to be a working stiff like everybody else.
Still, I'd listen to your dad. A really boring degree is a plus. It communicates to the rest of the world that you are willing to do will shit boring things, which is the value they're looking for.
Major in Business and take a lot of programming courses.
It's pretty ironic that he missed out on an H&R Block (Tax) question.
He's going to owe a whole lot of taxes. Taxes were the only thing that got Ken Jennings.
Almost there:
In Korea, (current subject) is only for elders.
One of the advantages to Gnome's nazi UI guidelines is they provide a large # of attractive stock icons, and highly encourage you to use *only* those.
As a non-artist programmer that's what I do. Retreat into non-creativity, use the stock icons for folders. Where you can be creative is thinking about how to use that cool "Folder" icon to mean an entity in your application, and how you can use that cool "Tools" icon to invoke an operation.
For your application Icon just use some tiny font and an icon editor to make a text based icon on a solid color background. Everything else will look lame.
If you have greater needs, enlist the services of someone with skill.
Nobody has to use a Warezed version of Visual Studio. Between the .NET SDK, and the Visual C++ 7.1 Toolkit, and the PlatformSDK, you can download all the tools you need to build (including the optimizing C compiler) for free.
Even if you have a legal copy of Visual Studio you should be doing your automated build process with the free tools anyway.
Slashdot has mentioned SATS.
It will allow you to physically commute 400 miles each way daily for working.
Not according to this:l #05
http://www.levenez.com/windows/history.htm
I started college in the Fall of '89 and bought a copy of Win3.0 my spring semester, freshman year: it came out in May 22, 1990. Wierd though because I *know* I fooled my parents into thinking the $50 was a school textbook, which would mean I bought it in Februrary.
Windows 1.0 came out in I think 1984, Windows 3.0 came out in 1989. How many large-scale industrial contracts did Windows win then? Zero. How did Windows get to this point? It started with replacing departmental level servers and workgroups, and proved itself there for ten years or so.
So, Linux should do the same. Can't expect to be birthed ready to run a marathon.
It adds quite a bit to the discussion: it's why you're not going to be able to go to "one" place and see anything.
It means the whole world, whether you see this as an all-powerful federal government or a federation of independent actors. You have to get your worldview straight.
There are 50 individual elections, which mean *nothing* as to who is president. They are simply guidances for the electoral college: who can do whatever they like.
You are starting from wrong premises.
That's not a simple statement of fact: that's a statement of fact + an opinion.
Flamebait? How can a simple statement of fact be flamebait?
Does anyone want to start an argument that there exists a national board of elections which will talley *anything* tomorrow?
This is the United States.
We have 50 separate state elections.
Look into it.
Sounds like they need to figure out the motions of falling big old heavy solid objects before they worry about this one.
I don't like reading documents in OpenOffice, in Windows or Linux. OO always inserts extra page breaks, and the fonts just look wierd and ugly.
.doc file I've needed to open for business, or what have you, has looked kinda retarded in OO. You get the gist of it, it just looks "wrong" and there are extra page breaks.
I for one do *not* find OpenOffice an adequate replacement for Word. It's fine to create documents in their own right in OO, but every