It's an exploit, not a silly bug. There's a big difference between not cleaning some vars accessible via a scripting language, and crashing because one character is missing in the input stream. Furthemore, given the track record of IE regarding cross site scripting, that's not anymore a very interesting subject.
I've tested the examples in the previous post and it doesn't seem to work...
a lot of ISO C# implementations,
optimized for various interesting tasks and platforms
An implementation of a language is not really useful, if the libraries don't come along. Inside those libraries, the GUI toolkit is NOT standardized. So we'll have a bunch of C# implementations with incompatible libraries ? And another bunch of people creating cross C# GUI toolkits ? Where's the point ?
According to the screenshots, not only longhorn is going to take around 2GB (extrapolation from XP family edition), but it's going to take 1600x1200 to write 20 lines in notepad or view 6 folders in a directory list... Such an improvement in usability, I cheerfully thank microsoft for its innovations.
To my mind, one of the main reason why businesses keep office is that someday someone wrote a cheap macro that everybody use now. The fact that the document generated has the same format that the document having the macro is just a side-effect.
With minimal changes, a business can take the core of a Cobol program that has proven itself over the past 10 years
Cobol without a mainframe behind is not really used. And I don't think that moving from MVS for instance toward a windows.net cluster is a "minimal change". And who wants to interface with Cobol in any language they like ? It's not the Cobol philosophy.
I guess I didn't explain my point clearly. With equivalent hardware, JSP feels slow. It's not a question of benchmark, developping with PHP is less cumbersome than JSP because of that.
Believe me, get into the J2EE swing with all the loving Open Source tool goodness, you'll never want to touch Perl or PHP again.
I've used both, and still lack PHP speed when I redeploy a bunch of JSP... Even if we talk about speed improvement, regarding to PHP it's just plain slow. So use J2EE for the right things in the first place, not because it's a wonderful hammer.
It's been a long time since I've seen such a bad page layout. A 200px wide column with shitty font, and no visual clues between questions, answer and the next. J. Nielsen please come and help.
Sorry but when you work with XML files, you don't do this with grep but with a true XML parser, which is an extremely reliable way to read a config file. Furthermore, a flat format can't handle nicely lists and dictionnaries: XML allows to nicely format that.
Not the point of the article. If you want a comparison chart, claim you are doing it. If you write an article where the point is "beware of advertisment", address the flaws in the ad. That's what is done.
Gnutella is Napster without a central processing hub. By setting up a "sting" operation, one of our investigators was able to track the infringement of several works by Harlan and Isaac Asimov using Gnutella. This presents interesting issues regarding the responsibility for the release of software which effectively pollutes the intellectual property environment.
I don't think they will gain anything with argument like this. I think I only have to sue Microsoft, Adobe, Quark, the KOffice team, because they allow me to reproduce copyrighted material with my hands, and put them on the Net... Well, let's sue Tim Berners-Lee as well, and the Arpanet responsibles: yes, let's do a class-action against the US Army for polluting the intellectual property environment
What a real window system for ? What a file system for ? I don't see the point of having this in a digital assistant. I just don't get it, I've my Palm for two years now, and I've never felt the need for having a limited PC in my pocket. I don't want the hassle of a filesystem, neither do I want ten windows struggling on a 3" screen.
... I use Emacs. Whenever I try one of those dedicated PHP editor, I miss some features I'm used to. Emacs does already quite well SGML/XML/HTML/JSP/JS/Java, PHP lags a bit behind, but with the manual in a browser and the syntax coloration, I've all I need for productive work. By the way, I use StyleMaster for the CSS, in case you were wondering if I was just another Emacs zealot...
Well, LiteStep and E-Sense (Enlightment port) was two OpenSource attempts to replace the Explorer shell. And they are not alone, cast a look at desktopian.
We're already cluttered with replacement shells ! The problem with that under win32 is the undocumented APIs, not the coding skills.
> If I've got Cygwin running on my Win2K box,
> what extra benefits do I get from using Debian?
Debian is a distro, with it's package manager, and it's configuration system. The point is to bring some manageable equivalent under windows.
Cygwin provides shell-utils, text-utils and file-utils, it's not aimed at a non-developper. The configuration is rather opaque, and it's low level apps for porting other apps essentially. Debian/w32 is not a developper toolset.
No ! Proprietary software is immoral and must not exist. If you give me a copy of this program, I have the right to use it freely. Users have the right to decide themselves what they do with the softwares they're using.
The choice does not belong to developpers, neither companies nor tyrans must have the freedom to decide. You don't have the freedom to force your preferences. FSF's mission is to convince users to not tolerate anymore proprietary software.
I took the freedom to translate from french. As you can see, RMS considers simply that a software is not a product, but an act. As an act, its scope must not interfere with someone else freedom. This is liberty. It's the same fight as the one for software patents. Whether you consider a software as a manufactured product or as an expression of some art or science changes dramatically your vision of his views.
I install new applications (if you can use the word to describe small utilities)
We are talking about application. Like Apache Server, OpenOffice, video manipulation app or others applications, not small utilities. You have the same digression as the previous post, just wanting to put ls in/bin/ls and to put cd in/bin/cd. Right isn't it ?
I hope that you have a good classification scheme in order to remember your 80Gb (or 10GB as you prefer) of small utilities:-)
I was not discussing that point, but rather mentionning that GPL does gives credit to the author and that we should not be misleaded on that. I've read too many wrong ideas about that.
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Since you have 1GB memory stick, Mozilla 2 will even be able to fit on it :-)
It's an exploit, not a silly bug. There's a big difference between not cleaning some vars accessible via a scripting language, and crashing because one character is missing in the input stream. Furthemore, given the track record of IE regarding cross site scripting, that's not anymore a very interesting subject.
I've tested the examples in the previous post and it doesn't seem to work...
An implementation of a language is not really useful, if the libraries don't come along. Inside those libraries, the GUI toolkit is NOT standardized. So we'll have a bunch of C# implementations with incompatible libraries ? And another bunch of people creating cross C# GUI toolkits ? Where's the point ?
According to the screenshots, not only longhorn is going to take around 2GB (extrapolation from XP family edition), but it's going to take 1600x1200 to write 20 lines in notepad or view 6 folders in a directory list... Such an improvement in usability, I cheerfully thank microsoft for its innovations.
Since when cracking a TV recorder for fun is a good cause ? Better use wasted time for folding@home or "screensaver lifesaver".
To my mind, one of the main reason why businesses keep office is that someday someone wrote a cheap macro that everybody use now. The fact that the document generated has the same format that the document having the macro is just a side-effect.
With minimal changes, a business can take the core of a Cobol program that has proven itself over the past 10 years Cobol without a mainframe behind is not really used. And I don't think that moving from MVS for instance toward a windows.net cluster is a "minimal change". And who wants to interface with Cobol in any language they like ? It's not the Cobol philosophy.
You mean you go in concert halls with strictly no reverberation ? Strange.
I guess I didn't explain my point clearly. With equivalent hardware, JSP feels slow. It's not a question of benchmark, developping with PHP is less cumbersome than JSP because of that.
It's been a long time since I've seen such a bad page layout. A 200px wide column with shitty font, and no visual clues between questions, answer and the next. J. Nielsen please come and help.
The problem is that as soon as a registry with file signatures is done, RIAA will strike back saying "you can identify the faulty files, so do it".
or have never considered buying CDs, so they will never be able to buy less.
Sorry but when you work with XML files, you don't do this with grep but with a true XML parser, which is an extremely reliable way to read a config file. Furthermore, a flat format can't handle nicely lists and dictionnaries: XML allows to nicely format that.
XML has drawbacks, but what you point is not.
Not the point of the article. If you want a comparison chart, claim you are doing it. If you write an article where the point is "beware of advertisment", address the flaws in the ad. That's what is done.
I don't think they will gain anything with argument like this. I think I only have to sue Microsoft, Adobe, Quark, the KOffice team, because they allow me to reproduce copyrighted material with my hands, and put them on the Net... Well, let's sue Tim Berners-Lee as well, and the Arpanet responsibles: yes, let's do a class-action against the US Army for polluting the intellectual property environment
.What a real window system for ? What a file system for ? I don't see the point of having this in a digital assistant. I just don't get it, I've my Palm for two years now, and I've never felt the need for having a limited PC in my pocket. I don't want the hassle of a filesystem, neither do I want ten windows struggling on a 3" screen.
... I use Emacs. Whenever I try one of those dedicated PHP editor, I miss some features I'm used to. Emacs does already quite well SGML/XML/HTML/JSP/JS/Java, PHP lags a bit behind, but with the manual in a browser and the syntax coloration, I've all I need for productive work. By the way, I use StyleMaster for the CSS, in case you were wondering if I was just another Emacs zealot...
Well, LiteStep and E-Sense (Enlightment port) was two OpenSource attempts to replace the Explorer shell. And they are not alone, cast a look at desktopian.
We're already cluttered with replacement shells ! The problem with that under win32 is the undocumented APIs, not the coding skills.
> If I've got Cygwin running on my Win2K box,
> what extra benefits do I get from using Debian?
Debian is a distro, with it's package manager, and it's configuration system. The point is to bring some manageable equivalent under windows.
Cygwin provides shell-utils, text-utils and file-utils, it's not aimed at a non-developper. The configuration is rather opaque, and it's low level apps for porting other apps essentially. Debian/w32 is not a developper toolset.
From this article :
I took the freedom to translate from french. As you can see, RMS considers simply that a software is not a product, but an act. As an act, its scope must not interfere with someone else freedom. This is liberty. It's the same fight as the one for software patents. Whether you consider a software as a manufactured product or as an expression of some art or science changes dramatically your vision of his views.
We are talking about application. Like Apache Server, OpenOffice, video manipulation app or others applications, not small utilities. You have the same digression as the previous post, just wanting to put ls in /bin/ls and to put cd in /bin/cd. Right isn't it ?
I hope that you have a good classification scheme in order to remember your 80Gb (or 10GB as you prefer) of small utilities :-)
Simple DirectMedia Layer supports Linux, Win32, BeOS, MacOS, Solaris, IRIX, and FreeBSD
:-)
Does somebody know a subset of SDL running on PalmOS
Who needs 2000 applications (aka entries in PATH) on one computer ?
By the way, are you sure it's still a microcomputer ?
I was not discussing that point, but rather mentionning that GPL does gives credit to the author and that we should not be misleaded on that. I've read too many wrong ideas about that.