I've seen documents that crash Word on some computers and not on others, even with the same version of Word.
Oh I know it's off topic but I'm trying to help. Tell the author of Word document never use fast-save in final save. Fast-save causing cascading problems which MS choses ignore in every version.
I don't know why it's so but it's just my personal experience.
Of course, if the database were mySQL or PostGres , the story would have never made it on/. .
Very true. They are open source and this particular development cycle will make sure such stupid bugs not last long. I'm sure such news wouldn't make it to/. if MS follows the same cycle.
Reading the articles you can see they concern the problem with closed source, not the brand itself.
Man it gives a damn new meaning to the word 'security'.
Security - (n) the state of corporations' assets being protected from tempering by criminals, hackers, programmers and a Russian dude called Dmitri Sklyarov.
Sad.
It seems that US Government doesn't see the seriousness in this matter and the stupidity in DMCA. In academic(dunno commercial) field, we don't consider US as the main base of computer encryption and wireless technologies. The Government gotta waking up from the center-of-universe dream, and stop hindering the growth of technologies. (well I really doubt they'd)
Security through insecurty: Install outlook. Label accordingly, and leave anywhere near the VA linux offices.
Hmm...it doesn't work. I put an obsoleted box labeled 'NT server' somewhere and later found it back with full functional Linux apache server in it. That sucker.
This isn't a problem with Outlook, it's a problem with idiot users clicking on every damn thing they're emailed.
WRONG! Outlook Express reads html in mailbox as local file - it's a serious mistake that they should have fixed long time ago!!
HELP.VBS hides itself in html files, and infect other files if open with full local privilege. I just got a user who sweared never opening any attachment has his computer infected with this. He just looked at a HTML mail that's all!
So stay away from Outlook Express for GOD's Sake! I know Outlook does have some improvement, but I've already lost my confidence....
It's like hell supporting users who never take your advises.
No no, I see what he meant. He want them creating virus for good purpose, like sealing security holes, or altering DNS entry in order to redirect virus-induced DOS attack against whitehouse.gov to microsoft.com.
last time one of my user having his outlook infected with HELP.VBS virus and called me during my vacation.
I were having problem instructing him to fix it over the phone(e.g. after 15 mins in searching for the 'Start' menu I realized that the screensaver was in fact activated). I offered to fix his problem personally once i got back next week. He said he couldn't wait that long.
Since the virus would only delete files on dates when the day and month total 13. I told him not to power up his computer when the total of day and month is 13.
However, regardless of the fact that he's a CFO, he has problem with simple addition....
What you have to remember is that the International Olympic Committee is amazingly corrupt.
It also worths to note that US voted China this time. People said that, besides other political issues, US did this to buy China's favor in 2012's voting.
Can we say it's kind of....corruption we talk about? I don't know...
I didn't remember when 'Microsoft lobbied for a 386 version'.
My colleagues questioned this 'subcontractor' why OS/2 1.2 could only run one DOS session, while their OS could running multi-sessions in real mode.
They promised to fix this in next version(aka next contract). We decided to terminate the partnership when we found out they were making an OS on 386 which could run in protected mode.
There's something the article didn't mention, may be they don't want to eat lawsuit. I've told this story many times.
BSA, after an audit, threatened to sue our University using illegal copies of MS products(well, it's difficult for an U to keep track of license of them). M$ one day called over, and offered to 'help' them settling the lawsuit if they agreed to sign a deal to purchase certain amount of M$ products for 5 years.
Of course we didn't know the deal at that time. During my study they replaced many of the SUN workstations with NT workstations. Of course, our research was adversely affected. We even have to squeeze money from our tiny research budget to buy Reflection X so as to run X programs on NT.
After we graduated we found out the truth. I wondered, how could they sign such a deal at the expense of our benefit. I did consult a lawyer but he said it's nothing I can do: I've no tangible lost(sort of), I don't know who to sue(definitely no chance to sue M$), and it's strictly business deal because BSA didn't actually sue them for copyright infringement.
Very obvious, BSA is working closely with M$....well it isn't surprising.
Trust me, they have never forgotten the burn that MS put on them five or six years ago
I trust you. Been there, seen that. I was working closely with OS/2 teams in a regional office at that exact period.
Yes MS did many nasty things to hinder OS/2's growth, but as a withness I can tell you the fault was the management gave up the battle too soon.
They care their own annuel reviews more than the life and death of a product.
Some managers even shamelessly dissolved their own OS/2 working teams and forming teams for VB strategy development. MS VB was still young, and our own VisualAge was so promising. I wonder why they are allowed to form teams to fight against their own products(OS/2, VisualAge). Once again, they care profits more than life and death of...
I could still remember the screaming "We could win, WHY!" heard in a meeting out of the mouth of a poor OS/2 developer.
Arts" took 22% of the pie chart distribution, only 2% more than "Computers". I am happy to see that I am living in a world with lots of people with artistic tastes.
I apology to destory your confident in humane. In fact porns that don't make people throw up are catagorized as 'Arts'. The rest are put into either 'Adult', 'Science', or 'Reference'.
Also, those attached with phone sex numbers are put into 'Shopping'.
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Caution: the suspect is armed.
For those who want some money but don't know how can start here.
laughably easy?
Oracle has a default password too, I think it is "CHANGE_ON_INSTALL".
Argh DAMN! You've exposed our SYS password to public! Sucker! You've no idea how DMCA can ruin your life!
Do a final clean up for your ass before feds knocking your door! We will miss you!
One more annoying programmer is eliminated, thanks DMCA.
I've seen documents that crash Word on some computers and not on others, even with the same version of Word.
Oh I know it's off topic but I'm trying to help. Tell the author of Word document never use fast-save in final save. Fast-save causing cascading problems which MS choses ignore in every version.
I don't know why it's so but it's just my personal experience.
Of course, if the database were mySQL or PostGres , the story would have never made it on /. .
/. if MS follows the same cycle.
Very true. They are open source and this particular development cycle will make sure such stupid bugs not last long. I'm sure such news wouldn't make it to
Reading the articles you can see they concern the problem with closed source, not the brand itself.
When used LEGALLY, it's secure
Man it gives a damn new meaning to the word 'security'.
Security - (n) the state of corporations' assets being protected from tempering by criminals, hackers, programmers and a Russian dude called Dmitri Sklyarov.
Sad.
It seems that US Government doesn't see the seriousness in this matter and the stupidity in DMCA. In academic(dunno commercial) field, we don't consider US as the main base of computer encryption and wireless technologies. The Government gotta waking up from the center-of-universe dream, and stop hindering the growth of technologies. (well I really doubt they'd)
Security through insecurty: Install outlook. Label accordingly, and leave anywhere near the VA linux offices.
Hmm...it doesn't work. I put an obsoleted box labeled 'NT server' somewhere and later found it back with full functional Linux apache server in it. That sucker.
Users always swear they "didn't do anything!" when they fuck something up. 99.9% of the time it's not true.
:)
/. way. *wink* Well you've a point. :)
Aye, should have penalize them using Outlook.
So put down the bold tag and exclamation marks, there's no need to get worked up.
Sorry for making it look offensive. In fact I were calm when writing this. That's
This isn't a problem with Outlook, it's a problem with idiot users clicking on every damn thing they're emailed.
WRONG! Outlook Express reads html in mailbox as local file - it's a serious mistake that they should have fixed long time ago!!
HELP.VBS hides itself in html files, and infect other files if open with full local privilege. I just got a user who sweared never opening any attachment has his computer infected with this. He just looked at a HTML mail that's all!
So stay away from Outlook Express for GOD's Sake! I know Outlook does have some improvement, but I've already lost my confidence....
It's like hell supporting users who never take your advises.
That's it! It does free me from any legal responsiblity by using this virus to spread my personal creating of p0rns and MP3! (Hey I'm a victim!)
It's even better than Napster....Cool that's very useful!
No no, I see what he meant. He want them creating virus for good purpose, like sealing security holes, or altering DNS entry in order to redirect virus-induced DOS attack against whitehouse.gov to microsoft.com.
last time one of my user having his outlook infected with HELP.VBS virus and called me during my vacation.
I were having problem instructing him to fix it over the phone(e.g. after 15 mins in searching for the 'Start' menu I realized that the screensaver was in fact activated). I offered to fix his problem personally once i got back next week. He said he couldn't wait that long.
Since the virus would only delete files on dates when the day and month total 13. I told him not to power up his computer when the total of day and month is 13.
However, regardless of the fact that he's a CFO, he has problem with simple addition....
What you have to remember is that the International Olympic Committee is amazingly corrupt.
It also worths to note that US voted China this time. People said that, besides other political issues, US did this to buy China's favor in 2012's voting.
Can we say it's kind of....corruption we talk about? I don't know...
I didn't remember when 'Microsoft lobbied for a 386 version'.
My colleagues questioned this 'subcontractor' why OS/2 1.2 could only run one DOS session, while their OS could running multi-sessions in real mode.
They promised to fix this in next version(aka next contract). We decided to terminate the partnership when we found out they were making an OS on 386 which could run in protected mode.
This patent was filed 3 years ago. Anyway it's good to know its progress.
Hmm, I was there.
....we woke up when they released their OS for 386....it took us 6 months to realize that we were being conned.
We thought they made greatest OS for 286.
Our management were so excited and focus all the resources to push OS/2 1.2 to the market.
C'mon man, there's no definite image of a geek; he may be like this or that, or somewhere in between.
:)
P.S. I'm more on the that side.
I've submit this cool-looking, Debian GNU/Linux powered battlebot TuxBot but got rejected by /. Gods.
Now this rugged oranges box got spotlighted?
What's wrong with you guys?
133t h4xx0r: "What is this VAX doing on a cable modem?"
Make it Mac. Most l33t h4xx0r flee on the very sight of it, guarantee.
No it's not a flamebait. I in fact compliment Mac...
There's something the article didn't mention, may be they don't want to eat lawsuit. I've told this story many times.
BSA, after an audit, threatened to sue our University using illegal copies of MS products(well, it's difficult for an U to keep track of license of them). M$ one day called over, and offered to 'help' them settling the lawsuit if they agreed to sign a deal to purchase certain amount of M$ products for 5 years.
Of course we didn't know the deal at that time. During my study they replaced many of the SUN workstations with NT workstations. Of course, our research was adversely affected. We even have to squeeze money from our tiny research budget to buy Reflection X so as to run X programs on NT.
After we graduated we found out the truth. I wondered, how could they sign such a deal at the expense of our benefit. I did consult a lawyer but he said it's nothing I can do: I've no tangible lost(sort of), I don't know who to sue(definitely no chance to sue M$), and it's strictly business deal because BSA didn't actually sue them for copyright infringement.
Very obvious, BSA is working closely with M$....well it isn't surprising.
Trust me, they have never forgotten the burn that MS put on them five or six years ago
I trust you. Been there, seen that. I was working closely with OS/2 teams in a regional office at that exact period.
Yes MS did many nasty things to hinder OS/2's growth, but as a withness I can tell you the fault was the management gave up the battle too soon.
They care their own annuel reviews more than the life and death of a product.
Some managers even shamelessly dissolved their own OS/2 working teams and forming teams for VB strategy development. MS VB was still young, and our own VisualAge was so promising. I wonder why they are allowed to form teams to fight against their own products(OS/2, VisualAge). Once again, they care profits more than life and death of...
I could still remember the screaming "We could win, WHY!" heard in a meeting out of the mouth of a poor OS/2 developer.
It took years of effort to turn dull PCs into game machines; nowaday people found challenges to do the opposite.
"Hey look I run an Oracle database server on my PS3!"
"Can you give me a break I'm trying to get this Final Fantasy XX running on my 10GHz P5."
Arts" took 22% of the pie chart distribution, only 2% more than "Computers". I am happy to see that I am living in a world with lots of people with artistic tastes.
I apology to destory your confident in humane. In fact porns that don't make people throw up are catagorized as 'Arts'. The rest are put into either 'Adult', 'Science', or 'Reference'.
Also, those attached with phone sex numbers are put into 'Shopping'.