The second use is an aberration caused by American domains omitting the.us TLD
God yes! Here's an idea that is a bit.. different,
Lets make a new.co.us domain, then let us stop taking registrations for.com (yup, no new.com domains). Then, slowly start cancelling.com domains, and replace them (for free?) with the appropriate.co. instead. At a stroke that would get rid of the 'everyone must have the.com' TLD for their site, no matter where they live in the world, and would allow better (sure, not perfect, but nothing is) country resolution.
In the uk, for example, if I wanted a shop selling stuff, I just need to filter out all but.co.uk and I'd get uk shops. None of them would want to pollute the namespace by using.co.jp say 'cos they'd just be stupid (and lose uk customers) unless they sold in Japan too.
Maybe we could then keep.com for global or multinational organisations (pepsi.com, microsoft.com, ibm.com for example). and not allow it to be sold to just anyone (or.. buy a hundred.co.XX domains, get a.com free)
I'm not sure public PKI is the thing that's about to take off. However, hardware security tokens are.. in the UK, there's been a lot of exposure recently of banking fraud and online security. Turns out the banks have decided (well, are deciding) that hardware devices are less daunting for the user, and easier to manage than certificates.
In this article I quickly found - tokens are about twice as popular than certificates for securing your bank transactions.
Seeing as this security stuff is suddenly fashionable within banking and IT circles, (even APACS is getting in on making a standard!) I expect to see something actually happen reasonably soon.
So.. for the RH engineer, I'd say more hardware authentication support is something to focus on. Look at the APACS standard (quick article) and support the card readers when they come out. The other thing to do is more management applications. The financial services organisations are using tokens because they're easier to manage than certificates, so make certificate management easier. I'd love to just stick my credit card in a ubiquitous reader and suddenly have secure access to all my banking and online services without having to generate a passcode (because it had a cert stored on it), but that doesn't look like its going to happen with the systems being put in place today.
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I wouldn't worry too much, there's always bad stuff and poorly implemrnted stuff in everything. The only thing I'd say to you though, is get famuiliar with the STL. Even if its just the container classes. They're possibly the best thing about C++, they're fantastic. Once you've grasped them (and its really easy to understand once you look) you'll never stop using them.
cheers.
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If you think Templates are bad, just don't even look at programming using Reflection in Java like languages.
C++ seems to be a language where you just work in it, and have the ability to do fancy stuff too. I think that's a strength, don't let other people's idioic coding practices (the "look how clever I am" coders) tell you otherwise.
12 bytes to store an int. Probably, but only if its boxed (ie converted into an object type so you can apply all those Object derived methods on it). Quite a lot like Java really. In fact, a *lot* like Java. They should have called it J# IMHO.
If that was the case, why would xVid, Firefox, openoffice, GIMP, and dyne:bolic be listed? They're hardly websites now are they. Really seems they've missed some bloody damn obvious ones (like Linux, d'uh, or Eclipse) or they've just knocked up some spacefiller article for a newspaper that doesn't know or care about the subject.
the impression that HCI is solely concerned with making things look nice, at the expense of usability
On the other hand, making things look "nice" has a direct effect on useability. I'm particularly thinking of the use of colour here - I have Windows with the taskbar across the borrom, and I know which tile is which mainly becuase they have little coloured icons with them. Until I realised I had firefox (mainly an orangey red colour), Visual Studio (little mainly red colour), acrobat documentation (mainly.. red squiggle) and I started to realise I had to think which tile I wanted. Same applies to outlook and explorer tiles - both mainly yellow.
If they were distinct colours, I could tell instantly which tile was which without thinking.
Incidentally, everyone criticises the shutdown option on the start menu, but no-one says where shutdown should be placed...
I know Amazon could help out - store the gifts themselves, and deliver them in 1 go, instead of running them through the usual channels. It'd also cost me less in postage and packaging when I contribute too...
IIRC, all machine guns work like that - firing one round causes the next round to be fed into the chamber, and so on.
With recoil though, even if there's a meaty spring in there, the energy still has to go somewhere. If its not turned into heat or light, it stays as kinetic (even if its turned into potential energy temporarily stored in the spring, that spring will still uncompress releasing the energy you put into it). So what happens to it?
It all must go into the body of the firer, who is of course braced and so the energy will only push him into the ground (like a butressed wall holding up a tower). If he wasn't braced, he would fall over.
but if they're going to install a sign, one of those "too fast, slow down" ones, then you need to hook it up to the grid, and that usually costs. I have seen one of those signs powered by a little windmill and solar panel above it, I thought that was quite cool (and no, wasn't too distracted by it as I hurtled past:) ) but I imagine it'd cost quite a bit.
This road lever thing is just a cheaper way of putting those signs in.
I use CentOS, and the latest kernel you get from them (ie Redhat) is 2.6.9.22, so if I want a much later (and therefore untested version), I have to compile it myself from kernel.org
I would love if the CentOS team did the compiling for me and release the latest stable kernel as a yum-installable module.
The issue is never because of the old 'unix is perfect' argument. Even Unix has evolved in its security capabilities - eg. SELinux, filesystem ACLs, but I still have to spend an hour running through my checklist to harden the webservers I put together. Including removing obsolete users that are installed by default! who uses gopher anymore, yet there's the user account ready to be attacked.
In this case, the issue is about developer coding. I don't care that it is about admin/user rights and not buffer overflows - if its poor code, it can apply to unix just as much as windows. (look at all the new versions of unix software that keep coming out - one of my checklists is to get a later kernel for the security bugfixes, and I have to make sure there's not a newer one available... oh yes. 2.6.14.4 is out this week.)
This guy definitely needs moderating up. How many programmer jobs were there 20 years ago compared to today? How many from 10 years ago?
I see it already, I'm 37, been programming for the last 12 years or so, and when I joined a lot of my colleagues were young, I don't see nearly as many anymore. At my current place, the youngest employee is 28.
So, for the OP, I think that as he ages, so will the rest of us, until the software industry is filled with wrinklies. Maybe we'll take the time to write well-engineered, reliable and secure software then instead of treating our jobs like a hobby:)
Most police forces use it to track the caller - not the criminal (so theyu can get a location to send a unit to without having to spend lots of time trying to find out where the caller thinks they are)
However, you'd be surprised how many 911 (999 calls here in the UK) where someone will make an emergency call to say "haha stupid coppers, we're dealing drugs, and you can't get us". When mobile phone location tech gets good enough to determine the exact location.. I'd love to see the faces of the callers when the cops show up:)
you can get 5 nines reliability with commodity hardware, you just need to have lots of redundancy, which you have to have anyway (eg, for ultimate reliability you need your servers in at least 2 geographically distinct datacentres in case of fire, flood, tornado, terrorist attack, or someone forgetting to pay the power bill).
So commodity hardware is the way to go, if you'r going to pay the price of having a redundant infrastructure, you might as well use cheaper (though not the cheapest) hardware.
Well, there's your problem, you asked an overblown geek something about financials and he either didn't know, or didn't care.
If you'd asked a CFO, then you would have gotten a very different picture, and I think you'd still be discussing the relative merits of drawn-down software licencing as a cost structure opposed to the tax-claimable options of the licences as software rental models amortized over the standard 3 year tax redemption period.
Go see your accounts depeartment, they'll tell you, to the penny, what you spent on software licences, renewals and maintenance agreements over anything up to 7 years ago.
Well, it did mention Java so it must be full of new funny ways you can break Java coding styles... forget that it contains references to all the old bad programming jokes from years past - eg. one section describes where the compiler only recognizes the first 8 characters so use_unit_update is the same as use_unit_setup.
Its an old joke. with a new header. That's all. Next submission please.
However, in the adverts that are targetted at consumers, with their desktop applications, the (relatively simple) threading benefits of HT will make their computer seem more responsive at the very least.
I doubt many desktop apps use lots of CPU running lots of similar threads like SQLServer does (and other high-load applications like MySQL and Apache that also do not perform as well with HT turned on).
In an advert, the bing-bong-bung-bong jingle takes longer than any explanation anyway - you surely didn't expect them to explain *anything* except 'buy one of these now'.
We've just had a bug reported, sometimes the tag name stops printing correctly, it starts printing garbage values.
If you'd used hungarian, you'd have seen that the pointer assignment to the tag variable was not an actual string copy. Of course, without that you have to go find which class rec is an object of, (being very careful with the inheritance heirarchy), to find that it is a char* and not the string class other, similar, classes in your code (that has been modified over time.... experienced programmers know what I'm saying here) use regularly.:)
(of course, use hungarian, but then changing the type but not the variable name is just as bad)
No, there's no excuse for this particular bit of Windows braindamage
sure? Perhaps your other comment said why it is better: As long as I'm not moving it to a different file system. Imagine you're a normal user. When you decide to "unlink and move" a file to your network drive (because in some cases you won't even know you're using a different fs) and it fails, you won't think 'of course, its because I used a different file system', you'll just complain that "it no longer works right".
Would your answer to such a user be "get a clue you braindamaged n00b"? How would you explain that you can sometimes use this file renaming trick, and sometimes you cannot depending on what is mounted where?
Its not exactl brain-dead. The reason Windows locks an executable file that is in-use is that it uses it as a kind of mini-swap file. If you need to swap part of that binary's code out to disk, windows doesn't - it just forgets it. If it needs that code back in memory, it reads it directly from the file on disk.
Windows does have options to write the new files in, but have them wait for a reboot to copy over the old ones (obviously, if you stop using the binary, then you can replace or delete it fine).
Other files are subject to the security options set when the file was opened. This is what you want, of course. (eg. if my app says it wants totally exclusive access to a file, then the OS should honour that)
Lastly.. you're showing your ignorance. That nice GUI Windows Explorer will not let you replace files that are in use, but you can happily rename them in the command line, and then copy the new one over. I've just done this with firefox.exe which I'm using to write this. This is the same method unix uses to replace files - you unlink the old file (so it's still there), and then copy your new one over the top... old filename, new inode.
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The second use is an aberration caused by American domains omitting the .us TLD
.. different,
.co.us domain, then let us stop taking registrations for .com (yup, no new .com domains). Then, slowly start cancelling .com domains, and replace them (for free?) with the appropriate .co. instead. At a stroke that would get rid of the 'everyone must have the .com' TLD for their site, no matter where they live in the world, and would allow better (sure, not perfect, but nothing is) country resolution.
.co.uk and I'd get uk shops. None of them would want to pollute the namespace by using .co.jp say 'cos they'd just be stupid (and lose uk customers) unless they sold in Japan too.
.com for global or multinational organisations (pepsi.com, microsoft.com, ibm.com for example). and not allow it to be sold to just anyone (or.. buy a hundred .co.XX domains, get a .com free)
God yes! Here's an idea that is a bit
Lets make a new
In the uk, for example, if I wanted a shop selling stuff, I just need to filter out all but
Maybe we could then keep
I'm not sure public PKI is the thing that's about to take off. However, hardware security tokens are.. in the UK, there's been a lot of exposure recently of banking fraud and online security. Turns out the banks have decided (well, are deciding) that hardware devices are less daunting for the user, and easier to manage than certificates.
In this article I quickly found - tokens are about twice as popular than certificates for securing your bank transactions.
Seeing as this security stuff is suddenly fashionable within banking and IT circles, (even APACS is getting in on making a standard!) I expect to see something actually happen reasonably soon.
So.. for the RH engineer, I'd say more hardware authentication support is something to focus on. Look at the APACS standard (quick article) and support the card readers when they come out. The other thing to do is more management applications. The financial services organisations are using tokens because they're easier to manage than certificates, so make certificate management easier. I'd love to just stick my credit card in a ubiquitous reader and suddenly have secure access to all my banking and online services without having to generate a passcode (because it had a cert stored on it), but that doesn't look like its going to happen with the systems being put in place today.
I wouldn't worry too much, there's always bad stuff and poorly implemrnted stuff in everything. The only thing I'd say to you though, is get famuiliar with the STL. Even if its just the container classes. They're possibly the best thing about C++, they're fantastic. Once you've grasped them (and its really easy to understand once you look) you'll never stop using them.
cheers.
If you think Templates are bad, just don't even look at programming using Reflection in Java like languages.
C++ seems to be a language where you just work in it, and have the ability to do fancy stuff too. I think that's a strength, don't let other people's idioic coding practices (the "look how clever I am" coders) tell you otherwise.
12 bytes to store an int. Probably, but only if its boxed (ie converted into an object type so you can apply all those Object derived methods on it). Quite a lot like Java really. In fact, a *lot* like Java. They should have called it J# IMHO.
If that was the case, why would xVid, Firefox, openoffice, GIMP, and dyne:bolic be listed? They're hardly websites now are they. Really seems they've missed some bloody damn obvious ones (like Linux, d'uh, or Eclipse) or they've just knocked up some spacefiller article for a newspaper that doesn't know or care about the subject.
I think he meant 'Apache' :)
He is if you think multi-platform also means Debian, Redhat, Suse, etc.
the impression that HCI is solely concerned with making things look nice, at the expense of usability
On the other hand, making things look "nice" has a direct effect on useability. I'm particularly thinking of the use of colour here - I have Windows with the taskbar across the borrom, and I know which tile is which mainly becuase they have little coloured icons with them. Until I realised I had firefox (mainly an orangey red colour), Visual Studio (little mainly red colour), acrobat documentation (mainly.. red squiggle) and I started to realise I had to think which tile I wanted. Same applies to outlook and explorer tiles - both mainly yellow.
If they were distinct colours, I could tell instantly which tile was which without thinking.
Incidentally, everyone criticises the shutdown option on the start menu, but no-one says where shutdown should be placed...
I know Amazon could help out - store the gifts themselves, and deliver them in 1 go, instead of running them through the usual channels. It'd also cost me less in postage and packaging when I contribute too...
IIRC, all machine guns work like that - firing one round causes the next round to be fed into the chamber, and so on.
With recoil though, even if there's a meaty spring in there, the energy still has to go somewhere. If its not turned into heat or light, it stays as kinetic (even if its turned into potential energy temporarily stored in the spring, that spring will still uncompress releasing the energy you put into it). So what happens to it?
It all must go into the body of the firer, who is of course braced and so the energy will only push him into the ground (like a butressed wall holding up a tower). If he wasn't braced, he would fall over.
but if they're going to install a sign, one of those "too fast, slow down" ones, then you need to hook it up to the grid, and that usually costs. :) ) but I imagine it'd cost quite a bit.
I have seen one of those signs powered by a little windmill and solar panel above it, I thought that was quite cool (and no, wasn't too distracted by it as I hurtled past
This road lever thing is just a cheaper way of putting those signs in.
From what I know.... yes and no.
I use CentOS, and the latest kernel you get from them (ie Redhat) is 2.6.9.22, so if I want a much later (and therefore untested version), I have to compile it myself from kernel.org
I would love if the CentOS team did the compiling for me and release the latest stable kernel as a yum-installable module.
The issue is never because of the old 'unix is perfect' argument. Even Unix has evolved in its security capabilities - eg. SELinux, filesystem ACLs, but I still have to spend an hour running through my checklist to harden the webservers I put together. Including removing obsolete users that are installed by default! who uses gopher anymore, yet there's the user account ready to be attacked.
In this case, the issue is about developer coding. I don't care that it is about admin/user rights and not buffer overflows - if its poor code, it can apply to unix just as much as windows. (look at all the new versions of unix software that keep coming out - one of my checklists is to get a later kernel for the security bugfixes, and I have to make sure there's not a newer one available... oh yes. 2.6.14.4 is out this week.)
This guy definitely needs moderating up. How many programmer jobs were there 20 years ago compared to today? How many from 10 years ago?
:)
I see it already, I'm 37, been programming for the last 12 years or so, and when I joined a lot of my colleagues were young, I don't see nearly as many anymore. At my current place, the youngest employee is 28.
So, for the OP, I think that as he ages, so will the rest of us, until the software industry is filled with wrinklies. Maybe we'll take the time to write well-engineered, reliable and secure software then instead of treating our jobs like a hobby
and some people want simple interfaces because they realise life's too short to struggle with complex interfaces.
Most police forces use it to track the caller - not the criminal (so theyu can get a location to send a unit to without having to spend lots of time trying to find out where the caller thinks they are)
:)
However, you'd be surprised how many 911 (999 calls here in the UK) where someone will make an emergency call to say "haha stupid coppers, we're dealing drugs, and you can't get us". When mobile phone location tech gets good enough to determine the exact location.. I'd love to see the faces of the callers when the cops show up
you can get 5 nines reliability with commodity hardware, you just need to have lots of redundancy, which you have to have anyway (eg, for ultimate reliability you need your servers in at least 2 geographically distinct datacentres in case of fire, flood, tornado, terrorist attack, or someone forgetting to pay the power bill).
So commodity hardware is the way to go, if you'r going to pay the price of having a redundant infrastructure, you might as well use cheaper (though not the cheapest) hardware.
I once asked a CIO
Well, there's your problem, you asked an overblown geek something about financials and he either didn't know, or didn't care.
If you'd asked a CFO, then you would have gotten a very different picture, and I think you'd still be discussing the relative merits of drawn-down software licencing as a cost structure opposed to the tax-claimable options of the licences as software rental models amortized over the standard 3 year tax redemption period.
Go see your accounts depeartment, they'll tell you, to the penny, what you spent on software licences, renewals and maintenance agreements over anything up to 7 years ago.
Well, it did mention Java so it must be full of new funny ways you can break Java coding styles... forget that it contains references to all the old bad programming jokes from years past - eg. one section describes where the compiler only recognizes the first 8 characters so use_unit_update is the same as use_unit_setup.
Its an old joke. with a new header. That's all. Next submission please.
However, in the adverts that are targetted at consumers, with their desktop applications, the (relatively simple) threading benefits of HT will make their computer seem more responsive at the very least.
I doubt many desktop apps use lots of CPU running lots of similar threads like SQLServer does (and other high-load applications like MySQL and Apache that also do not perform as well with HT turned on).
In an advert, the bing-bong-bung-bong jingle takes longer than any explanation anyway - you surely didn't expect them to explain *anything* except 'buy one of these now'.
lol. pleased to be of service :)
and sorry about the reply - just words like "Braindamage" suggests the usual anti-windows-no-matter-what bigotry on the other end of the wire.
if(cur == last) rec->tag = name
:)
We've just had a bug reported, sometimes the tag name stops printing correctly, it starts printing garbage values.
If you'd used hungarian, you'd have seen that the pointer assignment to the tag variable was not an actual string copy. Of course, without that you have to go find which class rec is an object of, (being very careful with the inheritance heirarchy), to find that it is a char* and not the string class other, similar, classes in your code (that has been modified over time.... experienced programmers know what I'm saying here) use regularly.
(of course, use hungarian, but then changing the type but not the variable name is just as bad)
No, there's no excuse for this particular bit of Windows braindamage
sure? Perhaps your other comment said why it is better: As long as I'm not moving it to a different file system. Imagine you're a normal user. When you decide to "unlink and move" a file to your network drive (because in some cases you won't even know you're using a different fs) and it fails, you won't think 'of course, its because I used a different file system', you'll just complain that "it no longer works right".
Would your answer to such a user be "get a clue you braindamaged n00b"? How would you explain that you can sometimes use this file renaming trick, and sometimes you cannot depending on what is mounted where?
Its not exactl brain-dead. The reason Windows locks an executable file that is in-use is that it uses it as a kind of mini-swap file. If you need to swap part of that binary's code out to disk, windows doesn't - it just forgets it. If it needs that code back in memory, it reads it directly from the file on disk.
Windows does have options to write the new files in, but have them wait for a reboot to copy over the old ones (obviously, if you stop using the binary, then you can replace or delete it fine).
Other files are subject to the security options set when the file was opened. This is what you want, of course. (eg. if my app says it wants totally exclusive access to a file, then the OS should honour that)
Lastly.. you're showing your ignorance. That nice GUI Windows Explorer will not let you replace files that are in use, but you can happily rename them in the command line, and then copy the new one over. I've just done this with firefox.exe which I'm using to write this. This is the same method unix uses to replace files - you unlink the old file (so it's still there), and then copy your new one over the top... old filename, new inode.