Strange. I'm on 512k down, 256k up for £12/month, I could upgrade to 1Mb down for £14/month, or 2Mb down for £20/month, but can't be bothered upgrading my old hardware. You need to look at changing providers. For £40 you should be getting 8Mb down.
If the site is indeed e-buyonline.com, then the hosting is currently with data393.net in Colorado, on a portable IP address that is one of a block of 8 registered to an individual with an address near Manchester Airport (UK). The article mentions finding the link to Pakhost from email headers, I doubt they could do much other than make the guy look for another internet cafe to check his hotmail from.
My last java project was a system of servlets for Tomcat which were needed to be up 24/7. The thing works, but the memory leaks were terrible
Thats not Java, thats your programming.
[Re C#] It's the stability and deployment that really got me...And this stuff runs much faster...
Right... My experience is otherwise. The JIT in Java 1.5, JRockit and other high performance JVMs leaves.NET for dead, even for Desktop Graphics, which was an area I was expecting big improvements in due to its tight binding with Windows, vs the much maligned Swing and AWT. And your ease of deployment example differs from Java how exactly? As for stability, it seems you have become a more competent programmer since you left Java, but your experience with.NET obviously does not go too deep within the networking libraries, or other areas where stability is lacking compared with Java.
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all you have to do is tell them you have a Job Interview and they have to give you off reasonable time for it, not sure if its paid or unpaid, pretty sure its paid.
If it's paid, well, that just strikes me as silly.
I'm not absolutely sure, but I think it only has to be paid if they are making you redundant. Otherwise you either take it out of your annual leave, or take it unpaid.
Third is the lack of applications. There are a few well chosen applications that support handwriting as a first class input mechanism.
It shouldn't be necessary for applications to explicitly support handwriting. The applications should support XIM, and that should be sufficient for a handwriting input method to be used system wide.
I take it you've been through the all the Bluetooth HOWTOs that are out there and still aren't having any luck? What exotic hardware are you trying to use?
99% of Japanese are better dressed than their American counterparts.
99% of anyone are better dressed than their American counterparts. Except maybe Canadians.
Actually, most Japanese have pretty awful fashion sense, they just buy a lot of designer labels and follow sometimes bizarre trends (loose socks, anyone?). But still, better than their American counterparts.
the us federal government pledged $35 million while the entire eu pledged $4 million.
£15 million of which was from the UK. Wait a minute, £15 million is almost $30 million, so either that $4 million dollars is what the EU is giving in addition to individual countries within the EU, or you pulled that figure out of your arse.
a quake near land does not cause Tsunami because the water is to shallow
The "Aussie" earthquake was not near land. It was 800km South of from Tasmania, the nearest landmasses were Auckland Island, Macquery Island, and the South of New Zealand, all 4-500km away.
Also, the USGS report stated that a tsunami was possible in the open ocean, but based on previous earthquake data would probably not hit land anywhere . So even if there had been a vertical displacement, any tsunami would probably have gone unnoticed.
Refactoring is trendy, but of limited use in reality. The example you give of renaming classes, methods or fields willy-nilly, is pointless and bad for maintainability. Changing public fields to getters and setters is more useful, but what were you thinking when you used public fields in the first place?
in my experience.NET is way more portable than java..... I can compile a dll on my windows b0x and run it straight on my openBSD b0x, my iPaq or even a cellphone. try that with java and the 'java enabled' machines which actually run a crippled vm.
You sir, are full of shit. The.NET Compact Framework VMs are just as crippled as a J2ME VM, and will not run a Desktop targeted DLL or EXE. There are no differences between Java and.NET as far as Desktop vs PDA/phone devices, other than Java being available for far more platforms than.NET, and having been around longer there are more versions of Java, hence backwards compatibility problems.
Perhaps your perceptions of "instantly" have altered to fit what you are used to. I use Emacs. It is what I've used for the last 15 years, and I am comfortable with it, so don't feel the need to change. Most of my co-workers use Eclipse. One day one of them thought he could convert me by showing me the new features in the latest version of Eclipse. He showed me a feature that automatically inserts the import statements needed by a class. A long wait as it analysed the file and drew a pretty progress bar, followed by a dialog prompting for confirmation for each import, and it was done. I was unimpressed. Little did he know that I'd been using the same feature in Emacs for the past 6 months, and it was instant, only prompting for confirmation when there were multiple matches for a classname.
6. A popup will tell you that you are about to run downloaded software from a known source (i.e.: Mozilla Foundation), with verified signature. By clicking a button, you can see the signature details and certification path.
So you're telling me that with XP SP2, I will get a warning before running a valid signed exe, while with all the unsigned exes I run I will get nothing? No wonder noone signs their executables.
3. Yes, there is. There are several internet standards, including MD5 hashing. Question -- why doesn't Firefox show the MD5 has automatically for any files it finishes downloading (in the download box?) Perhaps some good can come from this troll for hire.
That's a good idea, but the same question might be asked of IE and Explorer. Why isn't there a right click option to show the MD5 for a file in Explorer (or why isn't it a standard part of the properties dialog?)
By signing the (windows) installer, the user can very easily verify that the software he downloaded from whatever mirror server (or e.g. via BitTorrent or another P2P network) is actual, unmodified mozilla code.
Could you please give step by step instructions for this very easy process. AFAIK I would have to download third party tools and run them somehow (a lot like checking the MD5 against the one that mozilla publishes in fact), since we are not talking about an ActiveX control where such checking is automatic.
If you're using IE you only have a limited set of root certificate servers
It takes one simple link on a webpage and a confirmation dialog to add a root certificate to IE's certificate store. Whether you consider that convenient or scary depends on your point of view.
If you think Verisign certificates makes code any safer, then you obviously aren't aware of this:
VeriSign, Inc, discovered through its routine fraud screening procedures that on 29 and 30 January 2001, it issued two digital certificates to an individual who fraudulently claimed to be a representative of Microsoft Corporation.
Problems like that, and the fact that IE prompts you to accept certificates even for ActiveX controls that do not do anything potentially unsafe which just conditions people to click "Yes" without thinking, make code-signing a dangerous placebo rather than a real solution. Quite a few spyware authors have legitimate Verisign issued certificates BTW.
Your average coffee drinker does not even realize that most all Starbuck's coffee is over roasted and made of inferior quality beans.
I don't like Starbucks myself, but it certainly isn't due to inferior quality beans. For the last two years, one of my favorite coffees from my local roaster has been a single estate from Hacienda Culpan in Guatemala. But a few months ago, I couldn't get it anymore. Apparently Starbucks bought the entire crop this year. Unfortunately, they are going to ruin this great coffee by overroasting it and leaving it sitting in warehouses and back rooms of coffee shops for weeks.
We see that a lot in the UK too. Not because its any more legal than mentioning the "leading brand" by name (in the UK, any comparisons have to be backed up with solid evidence), but because the advertisers hope that by not mentioning a specific competitor, noone will challenge them on the claim.
To my knoweledge such advanced integration of route guidance has not been attemted anywhere yet.
Transport for London has quite a good integrated public transport/walking route planner. I'm not sure the route planner takes account of temporary travel disruptions though, only planned ones I think, but the current disruptions do scroll across the top of the screen, so if you are leaving immediately you can choose your route accordingly.
Wow that's what you guys are paying in the UK? 1 british pound is nearly 2 USD, so you guys are paying between $5 and $20 for a 8x10! Every walmart and walgreens in the US charges $2-$3 for a 8x10.
I was thinking the same thing about the US after someone else's comment about paying 30c for 4x6 and $1 for 5x7 (last time I got 5x7s done they were 19p).
At the lab I use, I'd pay £2.50 for a single 8x10, but for 5 or more the price drops to £1.75, and for 20 or more, to £1.25.
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Strange. I'm on 512k down, 256k up for £12/month, I could upgrade to 1Mb down for £14/month, or 2Mb down for £20/month, but can't be bothered upgrading my old hardware. You need to look at changing providers. For £40 you should be getting 8Mb down.
If the site is indeed e-buyonline.com, then the hosting is currently with data393.net in Colorado, on a portable IP address that is one of a block of 8 registered to an individual with an address near Manchester Airport (UK). The article mentions finding the link to Pakhost from email headers, I doubt they could do much other than make the guy look for another internet cafe to check his hotmail from.
Thats not Java, thats your programming.
[Re C#] It's the stability and deployment that really got me...And this stuff runs much faster...
Right... My experience is otherwise. The JIT in Java 1.5, JRockit and other high performance JVMs leaves .NET for dead, even for Desktop Graphics, which was an area I was expecting big improvements in due to its tight binding with Windows, vs the much maligned Swing and AWT. And your ease of deployment example differs from Java how exactly? As for stability, it seems you have become a more competent programmer since you left Java, but your experience with .NET obviously does not go too deep within the networking libraries, or other areas where stability is lacking compared with Java.
If it's paid, well, that just strikes me as silly.
I'm not absolutely sure, but I think it only has to be paid if they are making you redundant. Otherwise you either take it out of your annual leave, or take it unpaid.
It shouldn't be necessary for applications to explicitly support handwriting. The applications should support XIM, and that should be sufficient for a handwriting input method to be used system wide.
I take it you've been through the all the Bluetooth HOWTOs that are out there and still aren't having any luck? What exotic hardware are you trying to use?
99% of anyone are better dressed than their American counterparts. Except maybe Canadians.
Actually, most Japanese have pretty awful fashion sense, they just buy a lot of designer labels and follow sometimes bizarre trends (loose socks, anyone?). But still, better than their American counterparts.
£15 million of which was from the UK. Wait a minute, £15 million is almost $30 million, so either that $4 million dollars is what the EU is giving in addition to individual countries within the EU, or you pulled that figure out of your arse.
The "Aussie" earthquake was not near land. It was 800km South of from Tasmania, the nearest landmasses were Auckland Island, Macquery Island, and the South of New Zealand, all 4-500km away.
Also, the USGS report stated that a tsunami was possible in the open ocean, but based on previous earthquake data would probably not hit land anywhere . So even if there had been a vertical displacement, any tsunami would probably have gone unnoticed.
But if his Mamma gets a Squeezebox, his Daddy will never sleep at nights.
Refactoring is trendy, but of limited use in reality. The example you give of renaming classes, methods or fields willy-nilly, is pointless and bad for maintainability. Changing public fields to getters and setters is more useful, but what were you thinking when you used public fields in the first place?
You sir, are full of shit. The .NET Compact Framework VMs are just as crippled as a J2ME VM, and will not run a Desktop targeted DLL or EXE. There are no differences between Java and .NET as far as Desktop vs PDA/phone devices, other than Java being available for far more platforms than .NET, and having been around longer there are more versions of Java, hence backwards compatibility problems.
Perhaps your perceptions of "instantly" have altered to fit what you are used to. I use Emacs. It is what I've used for the last 15 years, and I am comfortable with it, so don't feel the need to change. Most of my co-workers use Eclipse. One day one of them thought he could convert me by showing me the new features in the latest version of Eclipse. He showed me a feature that automatically inserts the import statements needed by a class. A long wait as it analysed the file and drew a pretty progress bar, followed by a dialog prompting for confirmation for each import, and it was done. I was unimpressed. Little did he know that I'd been using the same feature in Emacs for the past 6 months, and it was instant, only prompting for confirmation when there were multiple matches for a classname.
Tomcat (also an Apache Foundation project) is even worse. It seems that 3.3, 4.1, 5.0 and 5.5 branches are all still active.
So you're telling me that with XP SP2, I will get a warning before running a valid signed exe, while with all the unsigned exes I run I will get nothing? No wonder noone signs their executables.
3. Yes, there is. There are several internet standards, including MD5 hashing. Question -- why doesn't Firefox show the MD5 has automatically for any files it finishes downloading (in the download box?) Perhaps some good can come from this troll for hire. That's a good idea, but the same question might be asked of IE and Explorer. Why isn't there a right click option to show the MD5 for a file in Explorer (or why isn't it a standard part of the properties dialog?)
Could you please give step by step instructions for this very easy process. AFAIK I would have to download third party tools and run them somehow (a lot like checking the MD5 against the one that mozilla publishes in fact), since we are not talking about an ActiveX control where such checking is automatic.
It takes one simple link on a webpage and a confirmation dialog to add a root certificate to IE's certificate store. Whether you consider that convenient or scary depends on your point of view.
VeriSign, Inc, discovered through its routine fraud screening procedures that on 29 and 30 January 2001, it issued two digital certificates to an individual who fraudulently claimed to be a representative of Microsoft Corporation.
Problems like that, and the fact that IE prompts you to accept certificates even for ActiveX controls that do not do anything potentially unsafe which just conditions people to click "Yes" without thinking, make code-signing a dangerous placebo rather than a real solution. Quite a few spyware authors have legitimate Verisign issued certificates BTW.
I don't like Starbucks myself, but it certainly isn't due to inferior quality beans. For the last two years, one of my favorite coffees from my local roaster has been a single estate from Hacienda Culpan in Guatemala. But a few months ago, I couldn't get it anymore. Apparently Starbucks bought the entire crop this year. Unfortunately, they are going to ruin this great coffee by overroasting it and leaving it sitting in warehouses and back rooms of coffee shops for weeks.
We see that a lot in the UK too. Not because its any more legal than mentioning the "leading brand" by name (in the UK, any comparisons have to be backed up with solid evidence), but because the advertisers hope that by not mentioning a specific competitor, noone will challenge them on the claim.
Transport for London has quite a good integrated public transport/walking route planner. I'm not sure the route planner takes account of temporary travel disruptions though, only planned ones I think, but the current disruptions do scroll across the top of the screen, so if you are leaving immediately you can choose your route accordingly.
Until you start looking at some African names.
I was thinking the same thing about the US after someone else's comment about paying 30c for 4x6 and $1 for 5x7 (last time I got 5x7s done they were 19p).
At the lab I use, I'd pay £2.50 for a single 8x10, but for 5 or more the price drops to £1.75, and for 20 or more, to £1.25.