Every time I head on over to SecurityFocus or even some of the Linux sites that aggregate feeds from security sites I see a bunch of Linux and BSD - and all manner of open source software - holes, exploits and vulnerabilities. They apparently get reported and patched with the same speed as the Microsoft (and other platform) security problems. So why isn't there a "Weekly Linux Critical Security Issue" as well?
The war has left Iraq's Internet infrastructure in shambles
Because it was so absolutely fantastic even before the first cruise missile was launched at Baghdad.
Typical leftie FUD.
Just like Afghanistan, except that over there at least they managed to dig out their C64's and connect over a 2400 baud modem and email Katz with alacrity.
In any case, I'm sure Iraq has bigger problems right now, like, oh, food and water.
Unlike Dilbertian employees, a consultant is hired to tell the truth, not coddle management with bogus opinions that do more harm than good.
I've been in that situation many times and I've never been shy about it - if I think you're fucking up, and it's my job to tell you, I will. What you do with that information is entirely up to you, of course. At the end of the day, I get paid anyway (which is why I'm a consultant and not a Dilbertian employee).
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so original! You make me laugh! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man! I like you jokes! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wow... my sides are hurting with that funny, funny quip you just threw down on us like some clever maniacal funny man! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Someone will even probably mod you as funny to show how funny you really are to the rest of us! Quip, quip says you! Everyone! Over here! Look at the funny man! He made a funny about the Cyberdyne chip! Get it?...Cyberdyne...chip... HAHAHAHAHA! It's a reference to Windows... yes, world domination and all that... HAHAHAHAHA! Yes, I am not sure where this guy is from but boy is he funny! Who invited him to the party? We gotta have this guy over more often! Honey? Come down here a second and listen to this guy 'tell it like it is' in a really funny way. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! "Biological detection", that's priceless. "whole new meaning." Gold. Just pure gold. How do you do it? I mean, so many people post on Slashdot but then you see a funny gem like this. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Pure hilarity. When's the last time you used Windows 2003 and so wittily remarked about it? But the brilliance of you tying in the wacky chip name with "blue screen of death" had me splitting my sides. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man. So clever, so very very clever. I'll bet you were the funny man in high school too. Wow. You still got it!
There's a lot of that, yes. But if you analize the great majority of spam that advertises a US-based product you'll see it's actually coming from either a seedy ISP or an open relay in either China or (increasingly) South Korea.
It's hard to pin down where most spam comes from, but the sheer volume of it coming from China is certainly there for everyone to see.
There's also the piss-me-off-more factor. I'd rather see something like "Hey, I'm 17 and I have a webcam" or "SIZE DOES MATTER!!!" than "We selling heair product in Guangdong Province in China. Plesa contact Mr. Xuan Xi Pang for more deailing in hair product. We also havening a free sale in plastice doll soon". For some reason I'd rather get spammed in proper english rather than in engrish (or whatever the fuck that is).
I could show you MS bugs that we've known about for more than 8 years
Well, let's see one then. I'm not challenging you and I'm not saying they don't exist, but if you say they do exist then I'd be interested in looking at them.
He didn't get mad and say, "Well, why don't you fork the project then?!!"
Because he runs a business and has customers. That kind of response goes well with the unwashed masses around here, but not in the corporate world.
"If you don't like it, fix it" is not what a manager at a Fortune 500 gig wants to hear when he figures out that the 1,000 licenses of RH desktop he just purchased don't support the legacy printers everyone uses at the company. Or whatever.
Hi, I'm one of those poor students who fight against evil by pirating softwarez and downloading mp3z. Look, I'm being opressed by Evil Corporation. Pity Me. Click here to send money to my PayPal account so I can buy more beer, party and make life difficult to seventh-tier Corporate Contractor Drones over a piece of software I got for free. Stay tuned, more emails from Evil Corporation next week, here for all to see. And hey, the Uni server can take the load, so what do I care!!1!
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Duh. You can still do this - IE's 'favorites' are nothing but file system objects that you can manipulate via Explorer or even a command line. You can zip them, archive them, massage them or whatever. And because the format of the.url file itself is identical to that of an INI file, you can write a simple C++ or VB or Delphi app to manage them as well.
That I'm in the wrong business. I shoul've gotten into diaper recycling. That's where the big money should be, at least if my experience is even slightly close to the average.
Of course you'll have to deal witht the Evil Cloth Diaper Keiretsu, but that just makes things interesting.
Sure, you'll be able to convert your Windows apps to the new file system, as long as it's written in C# or VB-- under any other language you might be SOL.
Sigh. Again, you're missing the point.
Even if you discount it by about a quarter to a half, it's still not good news for Visual Studio developers.
Again, you make the assumption that Microsoft is stupid. They may be a lot of things, but they're sure as heck not stupid.
VB.NET is a different situation. For years VB users complained that they had a second rate language with diminished capabilities - even if Microsoft had not ported VB to.NET, most existing VB code would probably have been broken in some way or another anyway. The 32-64 bit issue, OO features, etc. VB was in for a major change, and it just happened to be in step with.NET.
Most VB developers either like VB.NET or are moving to C#, which as far as Microsoft is concerned is just fine. In any case, VB6 will be supported until 2008. The average life of a VB application at the corporate level is 4 years.
I'm surprised... there was a new RFC released... big deal... something about a bit defining security ('evil bit', I think)... I don't have more details, but I'm sure someone can comment? I was hoping to see it on Slashback at least...
But let's assume that Microsoft decides to shoot itself in the foot and introduces this newfangled file system that breaks every application in sight (like they did for Win16 apps and NTFS, eh? Oh, no. They didn't).
So let's go with that. The FS is different. Guess what? I fully expect Microsoft to fix the System.IO namespace so that it works with the new FS and my apps work the same way they do with NTFS and FAT32. And they'll do it. Why? Because they run a business and they can't affod to alienate me (see "greed"). And if I happened to write my own CLI implementation for Windows, I suppose I owe it to my clients and users to do the same thing. But I fail to see how that will affect a CLI implementation written for BeOS.
Ahhh, but you're confusing implementation with interface. The CLI is ECMA-standardized and dictates how languages behave in.NET (among other things), but the implementation is hardly a standard. That's the point, isn't it? Anyone can write their own CLI and runtime. Isn't that "freedom"? Supposedly I can do the same thing with Java, but Java is somehow better than.NET. Not because it's technologically better, but because it's not a Microsoft product.
And BTW, if you could spare a few cycles of that excellent crystal ball you seem to have, let me know. I need to win the lottery.
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Just curious. I mean, if the intent is to inform.
4. Learn how to use HTML.
Because it was so absolutely fantastic even before the first cruise missile was launched at Baghdad.
Typical leftie FUD.
Just like Afghanistan, except that over there at least they managed to dig out their C64's and connect over a 2400 baud modem and email Katz with alacrity.
In any case, I'm sure Iraq has bigger problems right now, like, oh, food and water.
This is unacceptable and useless because it doesn't match the strict ideals of the Open Source philosophy. Right?
Your post is so idiotic I find myself at a loss for words. And that doesn't happen a lot.
I've been in that situation many times and I've never been shy about it - if I think you're fucking up, and it's my job to tell you, I will. What you do with that information is entirely up to you, of course. At the end of the day, I get paid anyway (which is why I'm a consultant and not a Dilbertian employee).
"Waste" is a very subjective term, especially if your POV happens to be zealot-ish in nature.
Actually, you know you're on Slashdot if you have to do that.
I'll think about the Xanax =)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so original! You make me laugh! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man! I like you jokes! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wow... my sides are hurting with that funny, funny quip you just threw down on us like some clever maniacal funny man! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Someone will even probably mod you as funny to show how funny you really are to the rest of us! Quip, quip says you! Everyone! Over here! Look at the funny man! He made a funny about the Cyberdyne chip! Get it? ...Cyberdyne...chip... HAHAHAHAHA! It's a reference to Windows... yes, world domination and all that... HAHAHAHAHA! Yes, I am not sure where this guy is from but boy is he funny! Who invited him to the party? We gotta have this guy over more often! Honey? Come down here a second and listen to this guy 'tell it like it is' in a really funny way. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! "Biological detection", that's priceless. "whole new meaning." Gold. Just pure gold. How do you do it? I mean, so many people post on Slashdot but then you see a funny gem like this. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Pure hilarity. When's the last time you used Windows 2003 and so wittily remarked about it? But the brilliance of you tying in the wacky chip name with "blue screen of death" had me splitting my sides. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man. So clever, so very very clever. I'll bet you were the funny man in high school too. Wow. You still got it!
Mwhahaha. You need to find an actual American to vent your frustration, dickhead. I ain't it.
It's hard to pin down where most spam comes from, but the sheer volume of it coming from China is certainly there for everyone to see.
There's also the piss-me-off-more factor. I'd rather see something like "Hey, I'm 17 and I have a webcam" or "SIZE DOES MATTER!!!" than "We selling heair product in Guangdong Province in China. Plesa contact Mr. Xuan Xi Pang for more deailing in hair product. We also havening a free sale in plastice doll soon". For some reason I'd rather get spammed in proper english rather than in engrish (or whatever the fuck that is).
As long as they stop spamming the world, thankyouverymuch.
Well, let's see one then. I'm not challenging you and I'm not saying they don't exist, but if you say they do exist then I'd be interested in looking at them.
Thanks.
Because he runs a business and has customers. That kind of response goes well with the unwashed masses around here, but not in the corporate world.
"If you don't like it, fix it" is not what a manager at a Fortune 500 gig wants to hear when he figures out that the 1,000 licenses of RH desktop he just purchased don't support the legacy printers everyone uses at the company. Or whatever.
Amazing concept, customer care.
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Wow, and here I thought I was 1337 because I figured out how to do this in IE.
Duh. You can still do this - IE's 'favorites' are nothing but file system objects that you can manipulate via Explorer or even a command line. You can zip them, archive them, massage them or whatever. And because the format of the .url file itself is identical to that of an INI file, you can write a simple C++ or VB or Delphi app to manage them as well.
Of course you'll have to deal witht the Evil Cloth Diaper Keiretsu, but that just makes things interesting.
Sigh. Again, you're missing the point.
Even if you discount it by about a quarter to a half, it's still not good news for Visual Studio developers.
Again, you make the assumption that Microsoft is stupid. They may be a lot of things, but they're sure as heck not stupid.
Most VB developers either like VB.NET or are moving to C#, which as far as Microsoft is concerned is just fine. In any case, VB6 will be supported until 2008. The average life of a VB application at the corporate level is 4 years.
You can't have your cake and eat it.
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I'm surprised... there was a new RFC released... big deal... something about a bit defining security ('evil bit', I think)... I don't have more details, but I'm sure someone can comment? I was hoping to see it on Slashback at least...
But let's assume that Microsoft decides to shoot itself in the foot and introduces this newfangled file system that breaks every application in sight (like they did for Win16 apps and NTFS, eh? Oh, no. They didn't).
So let's go with that. The FS is different. Guess what? I fully expect Microsoft to fix the System.IO namespace so that it works with the new FS and my apps work the same way they do with NTFS and FAT32. And they'll do it. Why? Because they run a business and they can't affod to alienate me (see "greed"). And if I happened to write my own CLI implementation for Windows, I suppose I owe it to my clients and users to do the same thing. But I fail to see how that will affect a CLI implementation written for BeOS.
Ahhh, but you're confusing implementation with interface. The CLI is ECMA-standardized and dictates how languages behave in .NET (among other things), but the implementation is hardly a standard. That's the point, isn't it? Anyone can write their own CLI and runtime. Isn't that "freedom"? Supposedly I can do the same thing with Java, but Java is somehow better than .NET. Not because it's technologically better, but because it's not a Microsoft product.
And BTW, if you could spare a few cycles of that excellent crystal ball you seem to have, let me know. I need to win the lottery.