Hm. Any student of any age who relies soley on google hits to write any sort of homework etc deserves firstly an F and secondly a you shall check ALL sources lecture;)
The UI might have been nice but trying to write any useful apps on the Palm is a nightmare. No proper threading, no file system, stupid heap size limit, non-standard C libraries (Okay, M$ doesn't use standard libraries either but it doesn't make it impossible to use standard libraries).
Poor 3rd party support is going to be one of the things which will listed on the death certificate as probable cause of death alongside people wanting the same os on a PDA as their desktop.
Between Yahoo's actions with China and the RIAA demanding account info from ISPs etc...
The ISP's are complying with the law in the US and Yahoo are complying with Chinese law - if you do buisness in a country then you abide by their laws whether you agree with them or not.
The problem isn't so much the link but the fact that by linking to the authors flash game he's having to pay the bandwidth charges etc. For a large file such as a flash game common politeness would be to email the author saying "We like your game, can we host a copy of it on our site (together with a link to your site and the usual credits)". The way the fuddruckers site looked it made it appear that the game was their own work.
Last time I looked Laptops are classed as PC's (Excepting of course the iBooks)...
By including mobile devices then pda, phones etc I think they're just trying to cover all the bases and some of them several times over.
Apart from that using the definition of a PC from wikipedia:- "A personal computer or PC is generally a microcomputer intended to be used by one person at a time, and suitable for general purpose tasks such as word processing, programming, or game play, usually used to run purchased or other software not written by the user. Unlike minicomputers, a personal computer is often owned by the person using it, indicating a low cost of purchase and simplicity of operation. The user of a modern personal computer may have significant knowledge of the operating environment and application programs, but is not necessarily interested in programming nor even able to write programs for the computer."
You can get away with including Mac's in the definition of a PC if you use the proper definition rather than automatically assuming the IBM PC way of thinking.
Your post just prompted me to ask a question: WTF is benificial oxygen compared to the regular stuff I breath every second? Should I be seeking to upgrade my home to benifical oxygen and walk around with a tank of the stuff?
I used to have a little app on my C64 back in 85 (okay it was in Basic and I was still in school) but it had a set of numbers for my friends and a free text area I could put any notes I needed to in.
I'm sure if I rummage around for long enough in my parents loft I can find the discs (though probably can't find anything to read them even if they're still any good (Doubtful to say the least))...
Strip away the tech related bits and Amazon are patenting a really new idea: charging people money for a service:). Think the whores of Babylon beat them to it;).
Regardless of his spam crimes on the grand scale of crime spamming is way down on the list of crimes (try child abuse, murder, rape, being pissed behind the wheel and killing someone etc) and so the comments along the lines of good he's dead etc are out of line.
The odds are this wasn't some overspammed individual taking revenge or the Russian Gov't (they tend not to worry about leaving bullet holes in their targets) but is more likely to be Russina Maffia related or some other such organized crime... but equally could have been a crack head who had broken into his apartment.
HTTP was orginally developed at CERN in Switzerland not in some over hyped country that thinks it invented everything.
As the current people responsible for the root dns haven't done too bad a job unlike ICANN then I don't really see what the urgent need is to fix it...
To be fair to the submitted the title is actually pretty much word for word the one used by the BBC news website... "LATEST: Sweden fights rampant piracy by outlawing the downloading of copyrighted material."
I'd suggest ditching a software firewall and investing in a proper hardware firewall such as Checkpoint FW1 and put all the servers behind that firewall.
Put another firewall ideally of a different type (break one you've still got another to break) and use that to isolate all the departmental computers...
Ensure the policies are locked down tight and that any changes are approved by someone who knows what they're about before being implemented.
Being pedantic most snake species which aren't totaly evolved for arborial existance don't have a very strong body for absorbing impacts - if you spend all your life 2" off the ground you don't need a good rib cage etc... so any snakes falling probably did go splat:(
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Hm. Any student of any age who relies soley on google hits to write any sort of homework etc deserves firstly an F and secondly a you shall check ALL sources lecture ;)
The first one is annoying, the second one isn't affecting me - FF 1.0.6
And the company I work for... the UK subsidary of the 4th largest defence company.
.uk.com as our .co.uk is now a bloody annoying search engine thingy.
We've ended up with the
I can do that now... take mobile phone, dial number, speak to operator and give them the coord's off my handheld GPS.
As for most things that go wrong alot of the non-obvious ones can not easily (at all?) be fixed at the side of the road.
Oh great, now future generations can be guaranteed the chance to see late 20th/early 21st century porn... ;)
The UI might have been nice but trying to write any useful apps on the Palm is a nightmare. No proper threading, no file system, stupid heap size limit, non-standard C libraries (Okay, M$ doesn't use standard libraries either but it doesn't make it impossible to use standard libraries).
Poor 3rd party support is going to be one of the things which will listed on the death certificate as probable cause of death alongside people wanting the same os on a PDA as their desktop.
Goodbye Palm, you had your day....
Between Yahoo's actions with China and the RIAA demanding account info from ISPs etc...
The ISP's are complying with the law in the US and Yahoo are complying with Chinese law - if you do buisness in a country then you abide by their laws whether you agree with them or not.
The problem isn't so much the link but the fact that by linking to the authors flash game he's having to pay the bandwidth charges etc. For a large file such as a flash game common politeness would be to email the author saying "We like your game, can we host a copy of it on our site (together with a link to your site and the usual credits)". The way the fuddruckers site looked it made it appear that the game was their own work.
Last time I looked Laptops are classed as PC's (Excepting of course the iBooks)...
By including mobile devices then pda, phones etc I think they're just trying to cover all the bases and some of them several times over.
Apart from that using the definition of a PC from wikipedia:-
"A personal computer or PC is generally a microcomputer intended to be used by one person at a time, and suitable for general purpose tasks such as word processing, programming, or game play, usually used to run purchased or other software not written by the user. Unlike minicomputers, a personal computer is often owned by the person using it, indicating a low cost of purchase and simplicity of operation. The user of a modern personal computer may have significant knowledge of the operating environment and application programs, but is not necessarily interested in programming nor even able to write programs for the computer."
You can get away with including Mac's in the definition of a PC if you use the proper definition rather than automatically assuming the IBM PC way of thinking.
Hm, I kind of knew that... I was being slightly sarcastic.
Your post just prompted me to ask a question: WTF is benificial oxygen compared to the regular stuff I breath every second? Should I be seeking to upgrade my home to benifical oxygen and walk around with a tank of the stuff?
Depends on whether the local McKorean has a special on dog bugers and fries...
I used to have a little app on my C64 back in 85 (okay it was in Basic and I was still in school) but it had a set of numbers for my friends and a free text area I could put any notes I needed to in.
I'm sure if I rummage around for long enough in my parents loft I can find the discs (though probably can't find anything to read them even if they're still any good (Doubtful to say the least))...
Strip away the tech related bits and Amazon are patenting a really new idea: charging people money for a service :). Think the whores of Babylon beat them to it ;).
Regardless of his spam crimes on the grand scale of crime spamming is way down on the list of crimes (try child abuse, murder, rape, being pissed behind the wheel and killing someone etc) and so the comments along the lines of good he's dead etc are out of line.
The odds are this wasn't some overspammed individual taking revenge or the Russian Gov't (they tend not to worry about leaving bullet holes in their targets) but is more likely to be Russina Maffia related or some other such organized crime... but equally could have been a crack head who had broken into his apartment.
Hmm... HTTP was born WHERE?
Before shooting your gob off check the facts.
HTTP was orginally developed at CERN in Switzerland not in some over hyped country that thinks it invented everything.
As the current people responsible for the root dns haven't done too bad a job unlike ICANN then I don't really see what the urgent need is to fix it...
To be fair to the submitted the title is actually pretty much word for word the one used by the BBC news website... "LATEST: Sweden fights rampant piracy by outlawing the downloading of copyrighted material."
Easy, just have a doctor at the gate who knocks out all the passengers and then goes on the plane and keeps anyone who looks like waking knocked out.
As the plane lands and taxis he can revieve them.
I'd suggest ditching a software firewall and investing in a proper hardware firewall such as Checkpoint FW1 and put all the servers behind that firewall.
Put another firewall ideally of a different type (break one you've still got another to break) and use that to isolate all the departmental computers...
Ensure the policies are locked down tight and that any changes are approved by someone who knows what they're about before being implemented.
php if misconfigured can be a security hole and even correctly configured is a risk (albeit minimal).
SSI works well for what the Beeb need so why change to a more complex system???
No comment... however see www.telehouse.net.
Hm,
MS Psuedo code:-
Launch IE XML Render
Catch Exception Cant start as its crap
Scan for app to blame
Print Netscapes fault not ours
Solution: Replace MS with Linux and move away from dll hell.
How will that effect ground wave transmission for HF and below?
Being pedantic most snake species which aren't totaly evolved for arborial existance don't have a very strong body for absorbing impacts - if you spend all your life 2" off the ground you don't need a good rib cage etc... so any snakes falling probably did go splat :(
Though given MSN gives Firefox a headache I'd rather use the Google News link...