I do know.
Say what you want, the COM interfaces for VBA coding in MS Office are light years ahead of anything you're going to find in FOSS.
Or does somebody have examples integrating Gnumeric, AbiWord, Dia, MagicPoint, and so forth?
Maybe by LSB 7.0 or so things will have gotten around to standardizing APIs across business applications.
Or not.
Oh, and thanks for the gratuitous downmod, ScuttleMonkey. Have I mentioned how cool you are in the last 10 minutes?
If you're an LWN subscriber, you can contrast Microsoft's position with this Firefox vulnerability article: http://lwn.net/Articles/179828
Or you can wait a week.
The gist is that there are indeed vulnerabilities:
There is a long list of JavaScript-related vulnerabilities, including problems with crypto.generateCRMFRequest() (CVD-2006-1728), a security restrictions bypass vulnerability (CVE-2006-1726), a "cloned parent" access restriction failure (CVE-2006-1734), and a regular expression memory corruption bug (apparently no CVE number at the moment).
Cascading style sheets account for a couple of problems, including an integer overflow bug (CVE-2006-1730) and an array overflow vulnerability (CVS-2006-1739).
The Extensible Binding Language (XBL) facility has an access restriction failure (CVE-2006-1733) and a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2006-1735).
Other troubles include "memory corruption via a particular sequence of HTML tags" (CVE-2006-0749), a DHTML memory corruption bug (CVE-2006-1724), and "an unspecified vulnerability" in how display styles are handled.
But there is an interesting conclusion:
Unfortunately, it would seem that such an exploit is bound to happen, sooner or later. A web browser is a seriously complex piece of code which is simultaneously exposed to potentially hostile input from the net and used for tasks requiring a high degree of trust - working with financial sites, for example...We must hope that the security fixes will continue to reach us ahead of the attackers.
But this is all long after having gotten someone interested in Linux. Computers are about as exciting to some as NASCAR is to me: "Them dudes still goin' in circles? Yep."
Teaching is a tragically underrated art form, and you'll always know what you know considerably better for having mapped the knowledge to someone else's worldview. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, de-n00bifying them in the name of RMS, and of LBT, and of ESR.
something to encourage Americans to make impulse purchases
Yes, but this increase in choice could be used to add "extremely unique" financial management tomes to that American's personal space to enhance their pecuniary experiences.
Scheduled to be in beta for the next four years
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Yes, but, once they get all of the kinks out, they can use the application to manage the formal launch event.
So they got that goin' for them. Thanks. I'm here all week.
Meanwhile, I like the completely understated interface.
It will also be fun to dig into the APIs. My biggest complaint against Palm Desktop is that integrating it with other stuff is too challenging. My biggest complaint with Outlook, besides its momma, is that its internals are a zoo.
With Google, one hopes for more opportunity for user add-ons.
As a starving non-pro, my exposure to UML has been the MS Visio implementation.
Visio is a great tool, up until you'd like to do something with the UML that wasn't intended by the authors, like writing a custom report against the model. Then you get that sad "I am baked" feeling.
A robust, open tool would be welcome.
Moment of cognitive dissonance
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On topic, this sounds kinda cool. What they need is a Joe Satriani endorsement. Or, maybe a David-St.-Hubbins-trying-to-be-Joe-Satriani endorsement, like a "Satch Tapes" outtake. That would be teh junk.
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Let me roger up, though, for the Bored Followers of Christ.
I rejoice in science framing the what of existence in increasing detail.
Still not doing much for the why of existence.
Nor are the various religions and philospies, Christianity among them. It remains subjective.
I'll just relax and watch the show.
In the first place, while I may disagree heavily with Mr. Softy, I'd not go accuse them of generating Linux viri. I don't think their evil that blatant; such would be beyond the pale of hard business competition.
The political backlash against such would be severe, if it were discovered; the damage would outweigh any possible gain. Even in a completely amoral thought mode, you still can't get the cost/benefit analysis to justify it.
Too, time spent devising Linux viri would only further divert company resources.
Then there is the cheap shot about whether they could muster the skill...
Beyond that, you've got questions about whether there is any substantial enough base in Linux to target. By the time you extend past the kernel to a full GNU/Linux system, the sheer diversity would blunt any vector substantially, I should think.
An application-level attack against, say, Firefox, could possibly have better success, but would be quickly and cheaply patched. Net effect: stronger competition for Mr. Softy. Oops.
Now, maybe they'll do something smart like port MS Office to their own MS/Linux distro. Wouldn't that be a kick in the naughty bits?
Slashdot Mirror
I do know.
Say what you want, the COM interfaces for VBA coding in MS Office are light years ahead of anything you're going to find in FOSS.
Or does somebody have examples integrating Gnumeric, AbiWord, Dia, MagicPoint, and so forth?
Maybe by LSB 7.0 or so things will have gotten around to standardizing APIs across business applications.
Or not.
Oh, and thanks for the gratuitous downmod, ScuttleMonkey. Have I mentioned how cool you are in the last 10 minutes?
Easily the oddest spelling of "simple and effective" I've ever seen.
Or, to thug Rob http://landley.net/'s sig,
"Never bet against the cheap plastic solution."
Redmond's non-grasp of the wisdom of that observation is simply...titanic...
Yes, but the items in
Hence the fact that
There is no shame in honing your skillz in
mv
Exactly what part of "billable hours" seemed strange to you?
The fanbase, it shrinks.
By half, in just eighteen months.
Spring thaw? Bad music?
http://lwn.net/Articles/179828
Or you can wait a week.
The gist is that there are indeed vulnerabilities:
But there is an interesting conclusion:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/> is fantastic. Really a great way to get in the door.
It even has some fairly deep hints, like:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/f
But this is all long after having gotten someone interested in Linux. Computers are about as exciting to some as NASCAR is to me: "Them dudes still goin' in circles? Yep."
Teaching is a tragically underrated art form, and you'll always know what you know considerably better for having mapped the knowledge to someone else's worldview.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, de-n00bifying them in the name of RMS, and of LBT, and of ESR.
Referred to mine as "His Puissant Hagiographiable Business-ness" the other day.
He has a sense of humor, at least.
In other news, the legal constipation at the US PTO comes into focus.
Da gubmint be makin' a lot of dough outta that steamin' loaf; you just wishin' it could be tasteless.
Yeah, but the sheer irony of it all...it's like seeing Senator on an Ethics panel...
Hopefully Nokia execs will read this.
Bundle the 770 with that E61, and you will have a dynamic duo.
Yes, but this increase in choice could be used to add "extremely unique" financial management tomes to that American's personal space to enhance their pecuniary experiences.
s/government department/any other large organization/
Because people just don't scale.
Redmond hatred flow
Spring sales elsewhere quickly go
Schadenfreude glow
Not to mention a .Net port.
It seems to me more of a tacit acceptance of people ignoring the licensing.
I think a more interesting question than what it says about Vista is what it says about the need to maintain the monopoly.
Were they to enforce the license more strictly, then people wouldn't use it at all.
And then the shiny new features that they'd like to put into Office would also be less likely to draw sales.
Or, the various free alternatives would become more attractive.
Right, but is the API open?
Yes, but, once they get all of the kinks out, they can use the application to manage the formal launch event.
So they got that goin' for them. Thanks. I'm here all week.
Meanwhile, I like the completely understated interface.
It will also be fun to dig into the APIs. My biggest complaint against Palm Desktop is that integrating it with other stuff is too challenging. My biggest complaint with Outlook, besides its momma, is that its internals are a zoo.
With Google, one hopes for more opportunity for user add-ons.
Thanks! Quite an interesting emerge.
I'm interested in exploring the python programmability.
Very intriguing.
As a starving non-pro, my exposure to UML has been the MS Visio implementation.
Visio is a great tool, up until you'd like to do something with the UML that wasn't intended by the authors, like writing a custom report against the model. Then you get that sad "I am baked" feeling.
A robust, open tool would be welcome.
I'm thinking, 'WTF happened? http://www.edgar-online.com/' is about financial stuff...'
Oh, Edge Online. Got it. First day, new eyes.
On topic, this sounds kinda cool. What they need is a Joe Satriani endorsement. Or, maybe a David-St.-Hubbins-trying-to-be-Joe-Satriani endorsement, like a "Satch Tapes" outtake. That would be teh junk.
I rejoice in science framing the what of existence in increasing detail.
Still not doing much for the why of existence.
Nor are the various religions and philospies, Christianity among them. It remains subjective.
I'll just relax and watch the show.
Wasn't sympathy from Sir Mick Jagger enough?
In the first place, while I may disagree heavily with Mr. Softy, I'd not go accuse them of generating Linux viri. I don't think their evil that blatant; such would be beyond the pale of hard business competition.
The political backlash against such would be severe, if it were discovered; the damage would outweigh any possible gain. Even in a completely amoral thought mode, you still can't get the cost/benefit analysis to justify it.
Too, time spent devising Linux viri would only further divert company resources.
Then there is the cheap shot about whether they could muster the skill...
Beyond that, you've got questions about whether there is any substantial enough base in Linux to target. By the time you extend past the kernel to a full GNU/Linux system, the sheer diversity would blunt any vector substantially, I should think.
An application-level attack against, say, Firefox, could possibly have better success, but would be quickly and cheaply patched. Net effect: stronger competition for Mr. Softy. Oops.
Now, maybe they'll do something smart like port MS Office to their own MS/Linux distro. Wouldn't that be a kick in the naughty bits?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
with the string handling functions of VBScript
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
(to say nothing of C-octothorpe)
Ask yourself, as you write some very 1980s code in T-SQL: WTF?