There is no meta key, and it bothers me because my thumb tends to hit ALT because the meta key moves everything over. So the spacebar is smaller. The bottom row is: CTLR ALT SpaceBar ALT CTRL
I love my keyboard. It has the clicky keys, but it also has: - duplicate function keys down the left side. Great for one handed CTRL-F? etc - NO win-idiot keys (nice wide space bar) - built-in LCD calculator (top right corner)
When it dies I will be sad. I have tried to find a replacement, but other than a one-off specialty buy...
A null terminated String is a misnomer. It is actually an array of chars which uses a special character to signify its upper boundary. So that a second variable is not needed to hold the upper boundary. Zero was chosen by K&R.
In some languages, a String is an object, and the object holds the upper boundary, so a terminator flag is not required.
The original weekly series was awesome. The technology shown in the series could have actually existed at the time (well at least to my somewhat younger self).
I wonder if this is fine enough to be able to distinguish the type and state of a molecule. If so, then you should be able to scan an entire person and store the result.
Then at a later date (when the technology becomes available) you should be able to re-create that person.
Using these you are separated from the operating system completely. You can see the machine boot, get into its BIOS, do a power reset (with a compatible power strip).
They have encryption and use a Web interface. Some have a fat client.
And try to run things from a command line as much as possible. Have the machine start a full screen command session upon boot, and hide the task bar. That should minimize the initial screen scrape.
That's one of the drawbacks to being invisible, since light goes around the cloak no light reaches the invisible person's eyes, and thus the person cannot see.
Two 1/2 millimeter fibre optic cables going to light amplifying goggles. It would be very hard to spot two tiny little dots floating against a varied background.
The company has now decided that it might be a good idea to encrypt the data in their systems.
Then they've clearly hired the wrong people for the job. But since when is news like this anything new?
And it goes on and on.
This sounds like a class action suit waiting to happen. Maybe 20 years ago it was, um, ok, not to encrypt data as it was stored on a mainframe behind several layers of physical barriers. But today with highly portable computing, companies MUST realize that anything that is stored CAN be compromised. There have been enough stories about stolen data that this is not new any more.
If a company had to pay out billions in a suit, then other companies may take notice.
I say may, because C-level people tend to be really stupid about where to spend money. Other than themselves of course...
Our data center had a catastrophic failure last year when the generator test failed and the operators didn't notice they had no power until the UPS died 15 minutes later.
My computer was on the building UPS. One day I am working away, and the computer power went off.
Shit, I thought, the mains went off. Then I remembered I was on building UPS, and I also realized that other machines NOT on the UPS were still working.
Then my power came back up. We rushed to the server room which had also gone off and recovered the servers.
A few phone calls later, and it seems that building maintenance was trying to find out which breakers were attached to which plugs. They were doing this by turning off the breakers at the panel and testing plugs.
I recently spent several hours trying to remove Quicktime from my system and replace it with Quicktime alternative. I had to go in and hand edit the registry.
You should try to remove Norton virus checker. It has pieces of itself everywhere, and it over writes Windows system files with its own.
So you get a brand new machine, and during the first login, the Norton installer runs. You have NO choice in this. Some deal was reached between the machine distributor and Norton, and that is just the way it is.
If you make a mistake, the entire Windows system goes sideways. We alway do an image FIRST, then try to remove it. That way if something blows up you have a fallback. Then we make an image for the rest of the same type of machine, and we re-image every new one that comes in the door.
If you have the budget, there are useful RSA key generation widgets that are often used for VPN's and increaingly for online bank account acces, especially for business customers. I have several that work quite well for SSL, and others I've used for remote SSH acces succesfully.
You are fooling yourself.
If the machine is compromised, then anything you type/ copy/ paste/ do is compromised. VPN etc is useless as your typing, or for that matter anything sent by the browser, can be captured.
VPN only starts at the NIC driver level, far below what you see on the screen.
We've gone from no spell checker to an integrated spell checker you run when you're done to automatic spell checking
I was using a real time spell checker on a 4.7MHz 486 machine with 768k RAM(yes, kilobytes). The word processor was WatchWord 2.0 running on Z-DOS 2.0, using a Zenith Z100 machine. In the mid '80s.
Sure laugh, but Walmart (who probably has the biggest database in the world) found that men who bought diapers also sometimes bought beer (on their way home from the office). So they moved the beer section next to the diapers. Sales of beer skyrocketed.
----- Walmart tracks EVERYTHING about every purchase. The date, time, weather, what you purchased, the relative locations of all those items (top shelf, bottom shelf, etc). A few years ago they had a multi-terra byte database. It must be in the teen peta bytes by now. Nothing about any location of any item is random. It is all planned out. I remember watching a show where they used time-lapsed cameras to see how most people walked through the store, then adjusted item locations so that the typical shopper would always walk by the items they were pushing that day.
potential risks of etanercept, including infection, cytopenias, possible increased risk of lymphoma and demyelinating disease, death, eye inflammation, and congestive heart failure;
OS/2 is object oriented at the OS level, with a GUI (Presentation Manager) which ran on top of it. You could run OS/2 without a GUI or an alternate GUI, or TUI shell.
NT required the shell to do OO stuff.
For instance (in OS/2) you could rename a directory using the command interpreted, and all the references (shadows) to that directory would be updated.
Rename a directory in NT (or Win2K, WinXP, and probably Vista) and the "shortcuts" lose their reference to it.
Just one small example. NT at the OS level did not have the funtionality of OS/2.
Want another one? NTFS (Windows) vs HPFS (OS/2). HPFS by design if fragmentation resistant. You do not need to run a defragment utility for HPFS. Also the allocation table is placed in the middle of the hard drive platter making file look-ups much faster.
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So did I. But some companies still wanted two digit years because it was "too hard" to enter four digit years.
In 1998 I made a killing :-)
Artificial limits for artificial price points
Can you imagine another company doing this?
FPS Starter Edition - 3 weapon limit
Word Processor Starter Edition - 3 page limit per document
Spreadsheet Starter Edition - 3 formula limit
UML Modeling - 3 use case limit
There is no meta key, and it bothers me because my thumb tends to hit ALT because the meta key moves everything over. So the spacebar is smaller.
The bottom row is:
CTLR ALT SpaceBar ALT CTRL
I love my keyboard. It has the clicky keys, but it also has:
- duplicate function keys down the left side. Great for one handed CTRL-F? etc
- NO win-idiot keys (nice wide space bar)
- built-in LCD calculator (top right corner)
When it dies I will be sad. I have tried to find a replacement, but other than a one-off specialty buy...
A null terminated String is a misnomer. It is actually an array of chars which uses a special character to signify its upper boundary. So that a second variable is not needed to hold the upper boundary. Zero was chosen by K&R.
In some languages, a String is an object, and the object holds the upper boundary, so a terminator flag is not required.
The original weekly series was awesome. The technology shown in the series could have actually existed at the time (well at least to my somewhat younger self).
The movie sucked.
PETA knows about the abuse these will get.
I wonder if this is fine enough to be able to distinguish the type and state of a molecule. If so, then you should be able to scan an entire person and store the result.
Then at a later date (when the technology becomes available) you should be able to re-create that person.
The beginnings of a transporter.
Google is your friend...
Try: mars moon photo rover
Get an IP aware KVM.
Using these you are separated from the operating system completely. You can see the machine boot, get into its BIOS, do a power reset (with a compatible power strip).
They have encryption and use a Web interface. Some have a fat client.
And try to run things from a command line as much as possible. Have the machine start a full screen command session upon boot, and hide the task bar. That should minimize the initial screen scrape.
Its the next best thing to being there...
Yes, that would be the politicians.
Who are themselves lawyers for the most part.
YES!
Two 1/2 millimeter fibre optic cables going to light amplifying goggles. It would be very hard to spot two tiny little dots floating against a varied background.
And it goes on and on.
This sounds like a class action suit waiting to happen. Maybe 20 years ago it was, um, ok, not to encrypt data as it was stored on a mainframe behind several layers of physical barriers. But today with highly portable computing, companies MUST realize that anything that is stored CAN be compromised. There have been enough stories about stolen data that this is not new any more.
If a company had to pay out billions in a suit, then other companies may take notice.
I say may, because C-level people tend to be really stupid about where to spend money. Other than themselves of course...
And yet all it would take is for a human to crumble the soil in his hand.
My computer was on the building UPS. One day I am working away, and the computer power went off.
Shit, I thought, the mains went off. Then I remembered I was on building UPS, and I also realized that other machines NOT on the UPS were still working.
Then my power came back up. We rushed to the server room which had also gone off and recovered the servers.
A few phone calls later, and it seems that building maintenance was trying to find out which breakers were attached to which plugs. They were doing this by turning off the breakers at the panel and testing plugs.
A nice memo was sent to building maintenance...
You should try to remove Norton virus checker. It has pieces of itself everywhere, and it over writes Windows system files with its own.
So you get a brand new machine, and during the first login, the Norton installer runs. You have NO choice in this. Some deal was reached between the machine distributor and Norton, and that is just the way it is.
If you make a mistake, the entire Windows system goes sideways. We alway do an image FIRST, then try to remove it. That way if something blows up you have a fallback. Then we make an image for the rest of the same type of machine, and we re-image every new one that comes in the door.
Hey Norton: go stuff it!
1 + 1 = 3, for sufficiently large values of 1?
You are fooling yourself.
If the machine is compromised, then anything you type/ copy/ paste/ do is compromised. VPN etc is useless as your typing, or for that matter anything sent by the browser, can be captured.
VPN only starts at the NIC driver level, far below what you see on the screen.
I was using a real time spell checker on a 4.7MHz 486 machine with 768k RAM(yes, kilobytes). The word processor was WatchWord 2.0 running on Z-DOS 2.0, using a Zenith Z100 machine. In the mid '80s.
So I am not impressed...
Sure laugh, but Walmart (who probably has the biggest database in the world) found that men who bought diapers also sometimes bought beer (on their way home from the office). So they moved the beer section next to the diapers. Sales of beer skyrocketed.
-----
Walmart tracks EVERYTHING about every purchase. The date, time, weather, what you purchased, the relative locations of all those items (top shelf, bottom shelf, etc). A few years ago they had a multi-terra byte database. It must be in the teen peta bytes by now. Nothing about any location of any item is random. It is all planned out. I remember watching a show where they used time-lapsed cameras to see how most people walked through the store, then adjusted item locations so that the typical shopper would always walk by the items they were pushing that day.
From the original article:
potential risks of etanercept, including infection, cytopenias, possible increased risk of lymphoma and demyelinating disease, death, eye inflammation, and congestive heart failure;
This I really hate. Hours spent in useless clever banter between the hosts.
Shut up already and stop wasting my time.
Here is a Canadian Government white paper on the subject.
Quote from the paper "Companies that promote family-friendly workplaces have an edge when it comes to recruitment and retention of skilled employees."
OS/2 is object oriented at the OS level, with a GUI (Presentation Manager) which ran on top of it. You could run OS/2 without a GUI or an alternate GUI, or TUI shell.
NT required the shell to do OO stuff.
For instance (in OS/2) you could rename a directory using the command interpreted, and all the references (shadows) to that directory would be updated.
Rename a directory in NT (or Win2K, WinXP, and probably Vista) and the "shortcuts" lose their reference to it.
Just one small example. NT at the OS level did not have the funtionality of OS/2.
Want another one? NTFS (Windows) vs HPFS (OS/2). HPFS by design if fragmentation resistant. You do not need to run a defragment utility for HPFS. Also the allocation table is placed in the middle of the hard drive platter making file look-ups much faster.