How about lack of a spell checker? Yah, the FAQ says tough shit, it is not required for Mozilla 1.0. If you are lucky, you might be able to hack in the Netscape checker (no luck with my last try). I see pspell and ispell moving forward (I never quite figured out the tie-in to the gui), but christ almighty, I can't spell my way out of a wet paper bag! I've already switched my default browser at work - now for mail client...
I didn't end up doing that but when I decided to upgrade a bunch of stuff and move to a new case, they had used hotglue on the IDE cables right where they go into the drives. No big deal but it did kind of suprise me a little.
Gluing the IDE cables is pretty common really. When boxes get tossed about, they can come out. As a side note, it usually prevents the Vendor from returning defective drives when the customer RMA's a box. A (little) nod to the customer anyhow...
does not need to go on a hard drive. Last time I looked you could stuff 4.7G or so of data on a single DVD ROM, and I suspect most new boxes could read that DVD!
Oh wait, this is about saving the couple bucks it would take to include recovery disks. Most call centers cost the vendor a couple bucks every time you call. I understand a recovery disk that is tuned to the hardware from the store - not that a hardware junky like me cares for that, but whatever... the cost metrics will usually correct these issues.
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Right now I am downloading the seven CD Visual Studio.NET Enterprise final version (yep, already warezed), a $2500 program.
The entire devil's toolkit (MSDN Universal, all OS, office, backoffice, and dev tools) goes for about 2.3K USD.... Course I'm sure there are people who might pay more for everything, but if you break up the kit, it is closer to the real price.
But a government has its own interests, and closing its resources to others is not one of them.
Call me a cynic, but last time I looked the government seems to care a great deal what the (insert name of anything that puts money into a politician's pocket) ^H^H^H community wants. Since open source tends not to have the lobbyist or deep pockets an Adobe, Oracle, or any other large corporation, they have to fight fair.... Not so for the big boys - a checkbook can buy almost any "interest".
I chuckle when my co-workers were shocked about the matrix Enron put together to optimize their government purchases. To be innocent again...
Put in next to a large body of water and use the stablizers to crash it gracefully into the ocean.
Now you just have to worry about Green Peace.
You know what a little earthquake can do to a shoreline thousands of miles away? If it fell out of the sky in the Pacific, it would take care of JavaOne this year....
** I can buy/rent a zone 1 DVD at any video store.
* So can we...
Try to find any other zone DVD anywhere but your comic store. Even then it gets dicy. Try to find a DVD player here in the States that can play those DVD's. Multiple zones don't matter until you find yourself on the wrong side of a release schedule.
** I can practice cryptography [technion.ac.il] without being targeted.
* There are absolutely no laws in the US that keep me from using any form of cryptography I want.
Want to bet? Unless your crypto coding will only be used in the US, there are all sorts of rules in place. Ah, you must not work for a company that that has offices on both sides of the pond.
After experimentation, I'm pretty convinced that the decompilers on the market that work on obfuscated byte code KICK THE CRAP OUT OF THE OBFUSCATORS. The long and the short of it is the decompiled code is pretty decipherable.
Oh man, you are not kidding. One department at the shop I work at holds their source code very close to their chest. It is easier to JAD the class files into java code than it is to go through channels to get a copy of the source. Try it - even on big commercial code like an app server. You will be shocked.
The rule of thumb is: if it takes you more than 20 minutes to fix a bug, either you are incompetent, go read the fucking manual, or the code you are working on is a cryptic piece of goat shit, rebuild from scratch.
First off, get an account...
Secondly, Yikes! Have you ever worked on a project that was bigger than yourself? Most apps I tangle with are 1) large and diverse enough it will take a long time to know the codebase, 2) old enough that it was mutated far from its original problem, or 3) marketing drives a deadline that required corner cutting.
Just the fact you expected documentation for the codebase made me chuckle.....
From personal experience, I had a project that took almost 8 months. We were adding security to our application (before the JAAS 1.3 was out). We had to touch almost every class file when porting to a better way of doing authorization and authentication. We could not freeze the code, so not only did we have to patch everything, but also try to fold in all the other updates that were being done in CVS. Learned a thing or two about how not to merge branches too (grin). Fluid things are hard. The Kernel sounds just as bad.
It wont be long before the MS camp picks up on this and starts to use it as a weapon - not that we havnt had to wait a year or two for bug fixes from them in the past.
Oh, I don't know about that. After all, I got three Exchange server patches within a couple days last fall! Mind you, the first to broke more than it fixed, but they were timely....
Seriously, some bug fixes can be tricky - and sometimes the patch creates tons of other problems. I know I can not cast the first stone here when I've coded around an issue, only later to have the problem fixed and my work-a-round hork things up. I can believe some issues took a year before all the code was in alignment...
I like to have one "grade" above 128 bit encoding (well under 256 however) because some times I go from MP3 to music CD format. Listening is fine with 128, as long as you don't want to do much more IMHO.
This response was not about wrong or right - just that remote access is built into XP. They can shut down an xp box - activated or not - as agreed in the EULA, btw... (thus the crack about 10k copies, assuming a warez'd version too).
I differ about xp pro - as workplaces migrate from nt & 2K, I doubt they will use the home version. Sure, that is what is pre-installed on anything you get at the store, but that is not the office environment. All I've seen is the pro, so my bad on any assumptions that may not apply to the home version....
I'm all for them locking down the XP install, btw. Double goes to officexp. Heck, when I installed stuff on my sun box, I had to give them the CPU id for each processor. By locking down the software and forcing people to purchase a copy for their home box, it may be a boost for StarOffice, and it will take much longer for them to move my gaming box to an updated OS.
All new XP boxes do.... it is supposed to allow Microsoft support to remotely fix a machine. They already can kill the box remotely if you happen to share the same key as 10K of your friends.
While its not hidden from sight, check out tight vnc if you want remote access to your box. Nifty little program for those of us who need to do something with a remote box - like my mom's....
One of the exiting possibilities stem cell research is someday we may be able to make better replacement organs without horking the immune system, understand aging (and someday doing something about it), or any of the pure research that a baseline cell could offer.. It is still way out there, but this nicely side steps most of the religious/ethical/what about the children political nonsense we have with the embryo-based stem cells. Woot! Just getting past the BS is worth a noble prize in my eyes...
A close friend of mine wrote a Perl book that was published by one of the biggies. He figures he made well under minimum wage for the time spent - not one of those template style books for sure.
Anyhow, there were a few fubars on his part, but the editors(?) introduced a lot of bugs in the code when they horked around with the format. Deadlines prevented a solid review of the changes. A second revision fixed it, but just like us in the field - some times you have to hit a deadline.
It was a hoot hearing him sigh that while the second revision was "patched", he liked the artwork on the first revision....
ARM is on the way.... here is a copy of an email from back on the 9th. (Minor changes to get around the lameness filter)
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From: PalmSource
To: (snipped)
Subject: Test your app on Prototype ARM Hardware at PalmSource
PalmSource Conference and Expo
Dear (snipped):
The next Palm OS(R) platform with support for ARM-compliant processors is just around the corner, creating new opportunities for Palm OS developers and licensees. PalmSource is the place to get early access to the expertise, information, and tools you need to hit the ground running with the next OS. The conference starts February 5th at the San Jose Convention Center, so reserve your space today and save off the on-site registration fee.
Register before February 1st
Hotels discounts are only guaranteed through Jan. 11th - make your reservations today at www.palmsource.com.
If you have already registered we'll see you in San Jose! Contact palmsource@corp.palm.com if you have questions.
Refer a colleague. Please forward this invitation to your colleagues.
Developer Conference Highlights
Maximize your development investment
Test and tune your code in open labs equipped with prototype ARM-based hardware.
Learn tips and tricks directly from Palm OS engineers.
Gain efficiencies with the Palm OS Platform Compatibility CD.
Network with the best minds in the industry
Hear keynote addresses from industry leaders Tom Siebel and Dave Nagel.
Connect with people who can influence the future of your business.
I'll guess if you are a big gamer, you are probably running windows, in which case you should be current on your patches - security or otherwise...
As a development workstation in Linux - no issues - I've used everthing from Slot A, duron, athlon, XP, and as of this week MP (still have that silly grin). I doubt you would notice... I missed it (shrug) and the only down time I've had was for security updates and kernel upgrades. Never done any gaming on the box other than Q3, and that never seemed to be an issue. UT never did work for me, AMD or Intel...
I expect this will be patched very shortly on the Linux front. BSD and Windows are already fixed.
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One thing i really hate about mozila mail
How about lack of a spell checker? Yah, the FAQ says tough shit, it is not required for Mozilla 1.0. If you are lucky, you might be able to hack in the Netscape checker (no luck with my last try). I see pspell and ispell moving forward (I never quite figured out the tie-in to the gui), but christ almighty, I can't spell my way out of a wet paper bag! I've already switched my default browser at work - now for mail client...
I didn't end up doing that but when I decided to upgrade a bunch of stuff and move to a new case, they had used hotglue on the IDE cables right where they go into the drives. No big deal but it did kind of suprise me a little.
Gluing the IDE cables is pretty common really. When boxes get tossed about, they can come out. As a side note, it usually prevents the Vendor from returning defective drives when the customer RMA's a box. A (little) nod to the customer anyhow...
does not need to go on a hard drive. Last time I looked you could stuff 4.7G or so of data on a single DVD ROM, and I suspect most new boxes could read that DVD!
Oh wait, this is about saving the couple bucks it would take to include recovery disks. Most call centers cost the vendor a couple bucks every time you call. I understand a recovery disk that is tuned to the hardware from the store - not that a hardware junky like me cares for that, but whatever... the cost metrics will usually correct these issues.
Right now I am downloading the seven CD Visual Studio.NET Enterprise final version (yep, already warezed), a $2500 program.
The entire devil's toolkit (MSDN Universal, all OS, office, backoffice, and dev tools) goes for about 2.3K USD.... Course I'm sure there are people who might pay more for everything, but if you break up the kit, it is closer to the real price.
But a government has its own interests, and closing its resources to others is not one of them.
Call me a cynic, but last time I looked the government seems to care a great deal what the (insert name of anything that puts money into a politician's pocket) ^H^H^H community wants. Since open source tends not to have the lobbyist or deep pockets an Adobe, Oracle, or any other large corporation, they have to fight fair.... Not so for the big boys - a checkbook can buy almost any "interest".
I chuckle when my co-workers were shocked about the matrix Enron put together to optimize their government purchases. To be innocent again...
Man, it looks like my pie code got screwed up as it posted!
I guess these kitchen internet PCs aren't as stable as I thought...and I don't want any ruined pies!
And here I was looking for a 3.14... joke. Sigh!
Put in next to a large body of water and use the stablizers to crash it gracefully into the ocean.
Now you just have to worry about Green Peace.
You know what a little earthquake can do to a shoreline thousands of miles away? If it fell out of the sky in the Pacific, it would take care of JavaOne this year....
I can't comment on the first, but
** I can buy/rent a zone 1 DVD at any video store.
* So can we...
Try to find any other zone DVD anywhere but your comic store. Even then it gets dicy. Try to find a DVD player here in the States that can play those DVD's. Multiple zones don't matter until you find yourself on the wrong side of a release schedule.
** I can practice cryptography [technion.ac.il] without being targeted.
* There are absolutely no laws in the US that keep me from using any form of cryptography I want.
Want to bet? Unless your crypto coding will only be used in the US, there are all sorts of rules in place. Ah, you must not work for a company that that has offices on both sides of the pond.
After experimentation, I'm pretty convinced that the decompilers on the market that work on obfuscated byte code KICK THE CRAP OUT OF THE OBFUSCATORS. The long and the short of it is the decompiled code is pretty decipherable.
Oh man, you are not kidding. One department at the shop I work at holds their source code very close to their chest. It is easier to JAD the class files into java code than it is to go through channels to get a copy of the source. Try it - even on big commercial code like an app server. You will be shocked.
I'd love to see a "fighting vehicle" with EMP capabilities.
That would be a wee bit hard on the camera crew - well the equipment anyhow...
The rule of thumb is: if it takes you more than 20 minutes to fix a bug, either you are incompetent, go read the fucking manual, or the code you are working on is a cryptic piece of goat shit, rebuild from scratch.
First off, get an account...
Secondly, Yikes! Have you ever worked on a project that was bigger than yourself? Most apps I tangle with are 1) large and diverse enough it will take a long time to know the codebase, 2) old enough that it was mutated far from its original problem, or 3) marketing drives a deadline that required corner cutting.
Just the fact you expected documentation for the codebase made me chuckle.....
From personal experience, I had a project that took almost 8 months. We were adding security to our application (before the JAAS 1.3 was out). We had to touch almost every class file when porting to a better way of doing authorization and authentication. We could not freeze the code, so not only did we have to patch everything, but also try to fold in all the other updates that were being done in CVS. Learned a thing or two about how not to merge branches too (grin). Fluid things are hard. The Kernel sounds just as bad.
So it depends... a year may not be long at all.
It wont be long before the MS camp picks up on this and starts to use it as a weapon - not that we havnt had to wait a year or two for bug fixes from them in the past.
Oh, I don't know about that. After all, I got three Exchange server patches within a couple days last fall! Mind you, the first to broke more than it fixed, but they were timely....
Seriously, some bug fixes can be tricky - and sometimes the patch creates tons of other problems. I know I can not cast the first stone here when I've coded around an issue, only later to have the problem fixed and my work-a-round hork things up. I can believe some issues took a year before all the code was in alignment...
I'll bite here...
I like to have one "grade" above 128 bit encoding (well under 256 however) because some times I go from MP3 to music CD format. Listening is fine with 128, as long as you don't want to do much more IMHO.
Its only $5 if you want to do it over the net. If you print out the form and snail-mail it, its free.
bah, I just horked my long winded response....
This response was not about wrong or right - just that remote access is built into XP. They can shut down an xp box - activated or not - as agreed in the EULA, btw... (thus the crack about 10k copies, assuming a warez'd version too).
I differ about xp pro - as workplaces migrate from nt & 2K, I doubt they will use the home version. Sure, that is what is pre-installed on anything you get at the store, but that is not the office environment. All I've seen is the pro, so my bad on any assumptions that may not apply to the home version....
I'm all for them locking down the XP install, btw. Double goes to officexp. Heck, when I installed stuff on my sun box, I had to give them the CPU id for each processor. By locking down the software and forcing people to purchase a copy for their home box, it may be a boost for StarOffice, and it will take much longer for them to move my gaming box to an updated OS.
All new XP boxes do.... it is supposed to allow Microsoft support to remotely fix a machine. They already can kill the box remotely if you happen to share the same key as 10K of your friends.
While its not hidden from sight, check out tight vnc if you want remote access to your box. Nifty little program for those of us who need to do something with a remote box - like my mom's....
One of the exiting possibilities stem cell research is someday we may be able to make better replacement organs without horking the immune system, understand aging (and someday doing something about it), or any of the pure research that a baseline cell could offer.. It is still way out there, but this nicely side steps most of the religious/ethical/what about the children political nonsense we have with the embryo-based stem cells. Woot! Just getting past the BS is worth a noble prize in my eyes...
A close friend of mine wrote a Perl book that was published by one of the biggies. He figures he made well under minimum wage for the time spent - not one of those template style books for sure.
Anyhow, there were a few fubars on his part, but the editors(?) introduced a lot of bugs in the code when they horked around with the format. Deadlines prevented a solid review of the changes. A second revision fixed it, but just like us in the field - some times you have to hit a deadline.
It was a hoot hearing him sigh that while the second revision was "patched", he liked the artwork on the first revision....
No, but it still does the branding thing, which I see enough of. Now a picture of bill might just work...
Visions of an XP urinal puck danced through my head.... shudder...
Or in this case...
Programs don't kill servers, malformed packets kill servers.
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From: PalmSource
To: (snipped)
Subject: Test your app on Prototype ARM Hardware at PalmSource
PalmSource Conference and Expo
Dear (snipped):
The next Palm OS(R) platform with support for ARM-compliant processors is just around the corner, creating new opportunities for Palm OS developers and licensees. PalmSource is the place to get early access to the expertise, information, and tools you need to hit the ground running with the next OS. The conference starts February 5th at the San Jose Convention Center, so reserve your space today and save off the on-site registration fee.
Register before February 1st
Hotels discounts are only guaranteed through Jan. 11th - make your reservations today at www.palmsource.com.
If you have already registered we'll see you in San Jose! Contact palmsource@corp.palm.com if you have questions.
Refer a colleague. Please forward this invitation to your colleagues.
Developer Conference Highlights
Maximize your development investment
Test and tune your code in open labs equipped with prototype ARM-based hardware.
Learn tips and tricks directly from Palm OS engineers.
Gain efficiencies with the Palm OS Platform Compatibility CD.
Network with the best minds in the industry
Hear keynote addresses from industry leaders Tom Siebel and Dave Nagel.
Connect with people who can influence the future of your business.
They stopped a while ago... no new 1.3's are coming out of the fab. New in the store is not hot off the press, in this case.
I'd much rather suck up my pride and tell people that I was employed by AOL, but trying to make it better, then tell people I gave up rather than try.
These days, its enough to tell people you are employed... never mind who signs the check, as long as it clears!
(fireproofing=true)
I'll guess if you are a big gamer, you are probably running windows, in which case you should be current on your patches - security or otherwise...
As a development workstation in Linux - no issues - I've used everthing from Slot A, duron, athlon, XP, and as of this week MP (still have that silly grin). I doubt you would notice... I missed it (shrug) and the only down time I've had was for security updates and kernel upgrades. Never done any gaming on the box other than Q3, and that never seemed to be an issue. UT never did work for me, AMD or Intel...
I expect this will be patched very shortly on the Linux front. BSD and Windows are already fixed.