By removing Tomboy note taking app from the default installation, Ubuntu 12.04 is saying goodbye to everything Mono. However, all Mono based software including the popular Tomboy can be installed from the Ubuntu repositories.
absolutely, they must have grabbed the hash in some way... as some have noticed, maybe it was sent over the internet using non-SSL connection.... apparently this isn't set by default on Hotmail today!
BTW if you are going to use a word-phrase, it is way better to misspell one of the words to prevent dictionary-combination attacks (as the 4-word phrase is just a 4 "character" password where each character is one of a set of words in the dictionary, about 2000 combinations instead of the usual 72 in the ASCII set)
its not - there are a lot of people screaming how 'only using lower case letters makes it easy to crack', the cracking algorithms can't know that, so they (assuming they're brute-forcing it) still have to try uppercase and punctuation too. Now, the one benefit might be that some cracker tools will exhaust all lowercase combinations first and then try adding numbers, capitals and punctuation later in which case it is quicker to hack, not easier. However, most people who have only lowercase letters also use real words, which makes these passwords trivially easy to hack using a dictionary attack (where you compare the hash against a pre-encrypted set of words taken from a dictionary).
You can tell the number of characters in the password though, that's usually the biggest factor. Longer = better and the Georgia Tech Research Centre says a minimum should be 12 characters.
The biggest factor in cracking is getting the hash though, but once you've got that, with modern CPUs, a 7-letter (ie 33 bits worth of data) will take about 16 minutes to crack using bruteforce methods. So even if the user stuck to lowercase, that might reduce the time to 8 minutes. woo.
you'll probably need Sharepoint, Windows Server 2008 R2, System App Centre and SQLServer Enterprise running.... so it won't be 'costly' directly, just think of the licences.
IIRC yellow and black is the colour of danger - hence wasps and bees colouring themselves that way, to say "don't bother trying to eat me"
"Baker Miller" pink is the most soothing colour, they paint prison cells this colour to put the violent and agitated prisoners in and there is proof it calms them down. There's also the 'green room' before TV broadcasts that's designed to keep guests calm. Then there's things like Orange that makes you feel hungry (you thought McDonalds just liked those red/yellow colours and that they didn't pay large sums to figure out which would make you part with a bit more cash?)
I'm not sure about books, check your psychology dept in Amazon, but there's plenty of sites with interesting things on them.
A theme that would slowly change your basic colours from bright daytime blue through to relaxed night-time dark blue, along with all the other colour gradients would be quite something.
Sure, I imagine it wouldn't be the easiest of things to create decent colour gradients that always work together, but there are many people who'd put that effort into their theme packs.
well, you'd be surprised then. Its when MS forces *some* programs to run as Metro apps, such as the web browser, so that you're in your nice multi-monitor setup, and you go to surf the web, and suddenly you have a full-screen (on monitor 1, not the other ones) metro-styled browser.
Ars has done a more in-depth, after-weeks-of-use article about it and even their pro-Microsoft writer thinks its a bit pants now. He's scathing about its multi-monitor support: it works great in desktop mode, but is useless in metro mode and that includes all the metro stuff you're forced to have when called from the desktop.
Microsoft have already said that the Win32 API is now legacy and will only be updating their WinRT API going forward. what's interesting is they've also said their.NET APIs are also legacy now.
I think Win8 is going to be another Vista, wait for Win9.
you need to check out OpenMP, or Intel's thread Building Blocks for ways to make your thread code look nice.
the trouble with "quad channel memory" is that you're just trying to scale up rather than out (ie you've shifted the goalposts, but they're still thee to catch you later as you use up more memory bandwidth). With server and cloud apps, you need to reduce your bandwidth consumption, as it means you then can use fewer servers and less expensive electricity. The days where we could just say "it's ok, buy a bigger server" or "next year we'll have enough computing power" are over. We now have to do more with what we've got, and that means more efficient programming.
This also applies to the 'desktop' too, as our desktops are increasingly mobile.
The better links t check your language is in demand is the job-search ones like IT Jobs Watch but I've noticed that can show a fair bit of volatility.
Currently jQuery and PHP are growing in popularity.
As for C++, Microsoft have discovered that their.NET languages are quite resource hungry, and that the cloud and mobile require more efficient resource use, hence their "C++ Renaissance" push.
Not that.NET will disappear, just that it'll become more of the language that filled the niche VB left vacant as their systems programming becomes more c++ oriented. Can't blame everyone from fleeing Java, even if oracle doesn't screw it up, it's still fast becoming a legacy language (ie the new Cobol:) )
no, I disagree bout GP languages.. people are returning to C++ because the 2 areas that are very popular right almost now require it - mobile and the cloud.
Both these have energy and resource issues, one because you have small, resource-constrained devices, and the other because you're trying to cram as many users onto as few servers as possible. So if you code with a dynamic language that is easy to code for, but less efficient with resources, then you end up costing yourself a lot of electricity.
This is the reason Microsoft has given for returning to C++.
I thought most of the fracking protests were taking place around Blackpool, so unless you have an American's knowledge of geography, you're wrong. The shale gas is all under the west coast of England in Lancashire.
So all the London politicians can rest easy, knowing any shit that happens will happen to someone else far away up north. Hopefully the nuclear reactors they also foisted on those people won't get damaged, but hey - its not in Notting Hill, so no worries.
although they say the reserves cover large areas of Europe, I guess that means it's not all in a single locatable point. However, the main drilling so far has taken place in Lancashire so Scotland can take its wannabe-president and f**k off. They can take RBS and HBoS and their debts away too.
which was not invented to save power but to make dark areas of screen more black, as backlight bleeding from bright areas made dark scene look less murky than they should be.
TV review sites complained about this years ago, hence the on/off mechanism to try to make up for it. They just happen to save power too.
its accelerating backwards... ie, it's effectively got its "engine" (ie the heat radiating surface) pointing in the direction its heading, and this is slowing it down. I guess its still got a lot of velocity, but this is being reduced by the lack of anything pushing it in the right direction.
In other words, in space, your hot arse is a form of propulsion!
agreed, if it is just a few web parts and "theme" then package the bits up and put them on codeplex. It's a shame you used sharepoint, if this was a (say) Drupal site, then you could just zip up the entire site and deliver it as-is, sql DB and all, and tell the recipients "this is what I did, all yours as an open source gift as if you'd developed it yourself".
of course, if I spent as much time learning all the new languages that I am informed I should be learning, then I'd have no time left to actually use them for real work.
I guess, for some people, that is a result.
(or in other words, I think it's often better to write libraries for existing languages)
One device chief at a European operator agreed. "Ultimately, Nokia and Windows are challengers and they either need to come to market with a really disruptive, innovative product or a huge marketing budget to create client demand. So far they have done neither."
Bring back Maemo, perhaps another company will do so once Nokia enters bankruptcy and sells of all its IP. Maybe there's a secret option for Samsung!? Maybe someone at Nokia will look at the sales figures and add 1 and 1 together and resurrect it. Who knows, but I hope something good happens to it.
Perhaps the issue here is that if you have Windows on your desktop and your laptop, the last thing you want, when given a choice, is more bloody Windows!
A more natural way of phrasing your point however is: if you have iOS on your mobile, you'd want iOS on your desktop and your laptop. This is why I think MS is a dead dinosaur.
Mozy allows you to store stuff on their system with a private encryption. they do warn you loads about "if you lose the key, you lose the data". That's a backup solution primarily, but they're working on a 'stash' that is an instant-sync type thing.
yep, GC = it's ok to use up as much memory as you like, without thinking about how to clear it up. It also teaches you that all objects are solely comprised of memory structures, when they're often containing other things that need clearing up. you end up with poorly performing overall systems, occasional memory leaks, and lazy programmers.
All in all, GC is a bad thing for computing. so much so that even MS has implemented smart pointers for some resources, and put in the IDispose pattern and then put in the using construct to make object lifetimes deterministic! If they went to all that trouble you know that is was a bad design decision in the first place.
Me, I've done a lot of things. currently doing C# and not enjoying it as much as I am told I should.
oh lord no..NET is pretty much the a mixup of Visual Basic and Java. It uses the worst aspects of VB like references and the worst parts of Java, like garbage collection and horrible memory use and performance.
At least MS has realised its not quite good enough.
you havn't been coding enterprise applications either., Some code is more complex than other, way more complex. Massively, stupidly, craply, suckfestly more complex.
Not because it is somehow special, but because there was money to be made in dragging the thing out as long as possible and making it as complicated as possible with the cheapest and most useless developers and the most expensive consultants you could imagine.
And most of these shitty shit shit applications are written in Java for people who have budgets bigger than their overstuffed bonus payouts.
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By removing Tomboy note taking app from the default installation, Ubuntu 12.04 is saying goodbye to everything Mono. However, all Mono based software including the popular Tomboy can be installed from the Ubuntu repositories.
at last, sense prevails!
absolutely, they must have grabbed the hash in some way... as some have noticed, maybe it was sent over the internet using non-SSL connection.... apparently this isn't set by default on Hotmail today!
BTW if you are going to use a word-phrase, it is way better to misspell one of the words to prevent dictionary-combination attacks (as the 4-word phrase is just a 4 "character" password where each character is one of a set of words in the dictionary, about 2000 combinations instead of the usual 72 in the ASCII set)
its not - there are a lot of people screaming how 'only using lower case letters makes it easy to crack', the cracking algorithms can't know that, so they (assuming they're brute-forcing it) still have to try uppercase and punctuation too. Now, the one benefit might be that some cracker tools will exhaust all lowercase combinations first and then try adding numbers, capitals and punctuation later in which case it is quicker to hack, not easier. However, most people who have only lowercase letters also use real words, which makes these passwords trivially easy to hack using a dictionary attack (where you compare the hash against a pre-encrypted set of words taken from a dictionary).
You can tell the number of characters in the password though, that's usually the biggest factor. Longer = better and the Georgia Tech Research Centre says a minimum should be 12 characters.
The biggest factor in cracking is getting the hash though, but once you've got that, with modern CPUs, a 7-letter (ie 33 bits worth of data) will take about 16 minutes to crack using bruteforce methods. So even if the user stuck to lowercase, that might reduce the time to 8 minutes. woo.
you'll probably need Sharepoint, Windows Server 2008 R2, System App Centre and SQLServer Enterprise running.... so it won't be 'costly' directly, just think of the licences.
IIRC yellow and black is the colour of danger - hence wasps and bees colouring themselves that way, to say "don't bother trying to eat me"
"Baker Miller" pink is the most soothing colour, they paint prison cells this colour to put the violent and agitated prisoners in and there is proof it calms them down. There's also the 'green room' before TV broadcasts that's designed to keep guests calm. Then there's things like Orange that makes you feel hungry (you thought McDonalds just liked those red/yellow colours and that they didn't pay large sums to figure out which would make you part with a bit more cash?)
I'm not sure about books, check your psychology dept in Amazon, but there's plenty of sites with interesting things on them.
now that is an original idea (quick, patent it).
A theme that would slowly change your basic colours from bright daytime blue through to relaxed night-time dark blue, along with all the other colour gradients would be quite something.
Sure, I imagine it wouldn't be the easiest of things to create decent colour gradients that always work together, but there are many people who'd put that effort into their theme packs.
well, you'd be surprised then. Its when MS forces *some* programs to run as Metro apps, such as the web browser, so that you're in your nice multi-monitor setup, and you go to surf the web, and suddenly you have a full-screen (on monitor 1, not the other ones) metro-styled browser.
Ars has done a more in-depth, after-weeks-of-use article about it and even their pro-Microsoft writer thinks its a bit pants now. He's scathing about its multi-monitor support: it works great in desktop mode, but is useless in metro mode and that includes all the metro stuff you're forced to have when called from the desktop.
Microsoft have already said that the Win32 API is now legacy and will only be updating their WinRT API going forward. what's interesting is they've also said their .NET APIs are also legacy now.
I think Win8 is going to be another Vista, wait for Win9.
you need to check out OpenMP, or Intel's thread Building Blocks for ways to make your thread code look nice.
the trouble with "quad channel memory" is that you're just trying to scale up rather than out (ie you've shifted the goalposts, but they're still thee to catch you later as you use up more memory bandwidth). With server and cloud apps, you need to reduce your bandwidth consumption, as it means you then can use fewer servers and less expensive electricity. The days where we could just say "it's ok, buy a bigger server" or "next year we'll have enough computing power" are over. We now have to do more with what we've got, and that means more efficient programming.
This also applies to the 'desktop' too, as our desktops are increasingly mobile.
The better links t check your language is in demand is the job-search ones like IT Jobs Watch but I've noticed that can show a fair bit of volatility.
Currently jQuery and PHP are growing in popularity.
As for C++, Microsoft have discovered that their .NET languages are quite resource hungry, and that the cloud and mobile require more efficient resource use, hence their "C++ Renaissance" push.
Not that .NET will disappear, just that it'll become more of the language that filled the niche VB left vacant as their systems programming becomes more c++ oriented. Can't blame everyone from fleeing Java, even if oracle doesn't screw it up, it's still fast becoming a legacy language (ie the new Cobol :) )
no, I disagree bout GP languages.. people are returning to C++ because the 2 areas that are very popular right almost now require it - mobile and the cloud.
Both these have energy and resource issues, one because you have small, resource-constrained devices, and the other because you're trying to cram as many users onto as few servers as possible. So if you code with a dynamic language that is easy to code for, but less efficient with resources, then you end up costing yourself a lot of electricity.
This is the reason Microsoft has given for returning to C++.
I thought most of the fracking protests were taking place around Blackpool, so unless you have an American's knowledge of geography, you're wrong. The shale gas is all under the west coast of England in Lancashire.
So all the London politicians can rest easy, knowing any shit that happens will happen to someone else far away up north. Hopefully the nuclear reactors they also foisted on those people won't get damaged, but hey - its not in Notting Hill, so no worries.
although they say the reserves cover large areas of Europe, I guess that means it's not all in a single locatable point. However, the main drilling so far has taken place in Lancashire so Scotland can take its wannabe-president and f**k off. They can take RBS and HBoS and their debts away too.
well, every little helps. It may only be a watt or so, but when you have 2 billion people using them, that's 2 billion watts!
which was not invented to save power but to make dark areas of screen more black, as backlight bleeding from bright areas made dark scene look less murky than they should be.
TV review sites complained about this years ago, hence the on/off mechanism to try to make up for it. They just happen to save power too.
its accelerating backwards... ie, it's effectively got its "engine" (ie the heat radiating surface) pointing in the direction its heading, and this is slowing it down. I guess its still got a lot of velocity, but this is being reduced by the lack of anything pushing it in the right direction.
In other words, in space, your hot arse is a form of propulsion!
they should have done it in VB.NET, catching exceptions by exception number is trivial in that. C# is the poorer cousin by comparison.
Mind you, nothing much wrong with COM exceptions, maybe it was just the programmers using those .net exceptions that wrapped them that was the problem.
agreed, if it is just a few web parts and "theme" then package the bits up and put them on codeplex. It's a shame you used sharepoint, if this was a (say) Drupal site, then you could just zip up the entire site and deliver it as-is, sql DB and all, and tell the recipients "this is what I did, all yours as an open source gift as if you'd developed it yourself".
of course, if I spent as much time learning all the new languages that I am informed I should be learning, then I'd have no time left to actually use them for real work.
I guess, for some people, that is a result.
(or in other words, I think it's often better to write libraries for existing languages)
true, but their audience was Linux geeks who know better, not Windows users who generally don't know or don't care.
amen.
From TFA: "
One device chief at a European operator agreed. "Ultimately, Nokia and Windows are challengers and they either need to come to market with a really disruptive, innovative product or a huge marketing budget to create client demand. So far they have done neither."
Bring back Maemo, perhaps another company will do so once Nokia enters bankruptcy and sells of all its IP. Maybe there's a secret option for Samsung!? Maybe someone at Nokia will look at the sales figures and add 1 and 1 together and resurrect it. Who knows, but I hope something good happens to it.
Perhaps the issue here is that if you have Windows on your desktop and your laptop, the last thing you want, when given a choice, is more bloody Windows!
A more natural way of phrasing your point however is: if you have iOS on your mobile, you'd want iOS on your desktop and your laptop. This is why I think MS is a dead dinosaur.
Mozy allows you to store stuff on their system with a private encryption. they do warn you loads about "if you lose the key, you lose the data". That's a backup solution primarily, but they're working on a 'stash' that is an instant-sync type thing.
yep, GC = it's ok to use up as much memory as you like, without thinking about how to clear it up. It also teaches you that all objects are solely comprised of memory structures, when they're often containing other things that need clearing up. you end up with poorly performing overall systems, occasional memory leaks, and lazy programmers.
All in all, GC is a bad thing for computing. so much so that even MS has implemented smart pointers for some resources, and put in the IDispose pattern and then put in the using construct to make object lifetimes deterministic! If they went to all that trouble you know that is was a bad design decision in the first place.
Me, I've done a lot of things. currently doing C# and not enjoying it as much as I am told I should.
oh lord no. .NET is pretty much the a mixup of Visual Basic and Java. It uses the worst aspects of VB like references and the worst parts of Java, like garbage collection and horrible memory use and performance.
At least MS has realised its not quite good enough.
you havn't been coding enterprise applications either., Some code is more complex than other, way more complex. Massively, stupidly, craply, suckfestly more complex.
Not because it is somehow special, but because there was money to be made in dragging the thing out as long as possible and making it as complicated as possible with the cheapest and most useless developers and the most expensive consultants you could imagine.
And most of these shitty shit shit applications are written in Java for people who have budgets bigger than their overstuffed bonus payouts.