I learn something new every day, which isn't hard when you're starting from scratch. This is why nobody lets me administer anything and why I don't want to administer anything. Of course, I spend half my day administering our servers. Go figure.
Now I have newer version of the remote app that our firewall administrator won't let through.
AskSlashdot (always a good idea at 12:30am):
Is VNC secure enough to run on a couple of high-traffic, high-exposure web servers? Man, would I ever catch hell if I talked the firewall admin into setting the VNC port open, then we get hacked through it. My company tends to trust commercial solutions like the really flakey Altiris CarbonCopy (formerly Compaq CarbonCopy). Any experience with security bugs?
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Yeah, all we need is some kind of centralized login system to do this. It could hold all of our browser data, credit card number, etc to make browsing the web easier.
Now all we need to find is a company that wants to write software to control all online transactions, profide centralized login and store our private information.
"If you feel even more strongly about giving credit where it is due, you might feel that some secondary contributors also deserve credit in the system's name. If so, far be it from us to argue against it. If you feel that X11 deserves credit in the system's name, and you want to call the system GNU/X11/Linux, please do."
Does this mean it should be Big Security Hole/Windows, since Big Security Hole is such an integral part of the Windows experience?
Typing this from a Big Security Hole/Crash/Windows 2000 Operating System.
We can't fool you! Just in case, we've decided to reinforce our igloos and ration the sled dogs' food. Can't be too careful. Rumour is that the terrorists have a heat bomb.
Your percieved "namby-pamby" attitude towards human rights accounts for a lack of Canadian culture? That doesn't make any sense. If fact, I want you to describe to me what American culture is because I don't know.
Do you consider music a part of culture? If so then Britney Spears is our culture and that's pretty pathetic. I think you'll find that upon speaking with some Canadians and Americans from different regions there are many cultures within each country. Texas sure isn't the same as New York, is it?
That's pretty ignorant. I am Canadian, but I don't say that American issues don't matter. DMCA doesn't matter because I'm Canadian, so Slashdot shouldn't post about it, is that how I should think?
Perhaps you should go back to the dump and find your soul. It's good to care about what happens in countries besides your own.
I had remote control software for my Palm VII. I think I grabbed a demo from download.com or somewhere similar. It was programmed by pointing the original remote at the Palm's IR port, which read the signal and duplicated it to a button on the remote control app.
kinda neat software, although whipping out my Palm to change channels always seemed more awkward than just using the original remote.
A barcode does not contain any product data. Our cash registers would get the price and description from a database and most employees don't have access to that database.
Getting a discount would involve co-ordinating the effort with a cashier who would let it through, or going to Sherry's cash, because she's too stupid to know better.
Anyway, the average customer cannot really do that anyway. You'd have to take the barcode from a product with a similar description and hope the cashier isn't going to notice, but in my experience cashiers tend to know the price of everything in the store anyway.
I did not RTFA, but I think it's worth noting that barcodes aren't unique. I worked retail for a couple of years and in two or three instances I found duplicates.
The store I worked at sold a lot of really cheap stuff, so maybe the problem was rogue manufacturers just randomly generating their product barcodes, hence a pinata might scan as a puzzle.
When we found duplicates we'd just print our own barcodes (which always started with four zeros, I think, to keep them unique) and stick them over top of the manufacturer's barcode.
So if I don't make money I can make photocopies of a new book and hand them out?
You're missing the point. You SHOULD be able to photocopy a book for personal use and you SHOULD be able to let other people read the book, and in fact you are allowed to do both of those.
Web radio isn't burning copies of CDs and handing them out, they're allowing other people to listen. No copies are being ditributed.
The MPAA is simply thinking that anybody who copies from broadcast will not bother to purchase the movie and that's where most of their revenues are. Unfortunately they make two incorrect assumptions:
1. That most people are still buying the videos once it hits broadcast. Since broadcast is so long after the movie hits the video stores and videos historically sell their vast majority in the first couple of months from release, the money they would be "losing" is probably very small.
2. That they would actually be losing broadcast revenue. Broadcast revenue comes per broadcast and not by ratings or how many record the movie. By the time copied movies make an impact on broadcasts the movies will be worth nothing anyway and will be playing on bad cable networks.
As no one else has mentioned, Oracle9i is also an app server and is in competition with Websphere.
Anyway, I work with Websphere 3.5 at work (4.0 is available) and can tell you that it's much more than Jakarta Tomcat.
the reason Websphere comes with Apache (well, it comes with a variant called IBM HTTP Server) is because it's not a HTTP server and it needs one to operate. Websphere handles only the jsp/java requests. Its advantage over something like Tomcat is that it's particularly well-suited to the enterprise market and supports massive scalability, intelligent load balancing (servers can talk to each other to find out what's going on) and a wide-array of add-ons (Websphere Portal Server, Websphere Translation Server, etc).
Just to throw in my own opinion, I hate Websphere. I have to run it on NT 4 and it crashes a LOT under heavy load. NT stays up as does Apache, but Websphere itself is constantly down when supporting about 70,000 unique visitors a day on two servers. I am told, however, that Websphere is extremely stable, although those same people can't seem to make MY servers stable for some reason.
DarkBasic is a programming language and dev environment that lets users with little or no programming experience create 3D games.
The great thing about DarkBasic is that it acts as a very good introduction to both programming and 3D programming (which can be a nightmare if starting with something like DirectX).
I hope I'm not alone in really hating awards shows. Do celebrities really need another reason to get full of themselves and pat themselves on the back? I used to work in an area where I'd meet various celebrities all the time and the only one I have ever met that isn't a jerk/bitch is Martin Short, who is actually quite funny in real life.
I'll still watch the movies that look good, but I say "screw 'em" to celebrities. They should be embarrased about who they are.
Actually, we bought IBM last year and have had nothing but trouble. Management has stated all along that they wished they had not chosen IBM.
IBM basically created our web infrastructure -- servers, load balancing, database, software. It's the most unreliable piece of crap ever. The IBM project managers were complete idiots and their sales guy lied about everything.
Nobody got fired, but with the money we're now spending with another company to get this fixed I'm sure somebody would have been if it weren't an overall exec decision to go with IBM.
From now on I buy Compaq servers, Redhat operating systems and use open source software.
Stop talking out of your ass. Windows' GUI is nothing more than explorer.exe, which also functions as its file manager. Very few GUI functions are handled by a lower part of the OS (ctrl-alt-delete dialog is, alt-tab dialog is).
Try going into the registry and setting the Shell key to "command.com"(9x/Me) or "cmd.exe"(NT/2K/XP) and you'll have a fast command prompt that can run Win32 windowed apps.
I asked a writer to send me a word doc as rtf and even included instruction. She was going to be paid $250 for the story, but wouldn't bother saving it as rtf, so we didn't run her story and she didn't get paid.
I think the real problem is that most people are way too lazy to learn even a slight variance in what they do, let alone a huge one like change their OS:
luser: Where's Word? bofh: KOffice.. right there on the toolbar. luser: But it doesn't say 'Word' bofh: It's the same thing. luser: I like Word. * bofh renames link to say "Microsoft Word" * luser: Thanks!
This is an actual conversation that took place between my father-in-law and the telco.
FIL: I'd like to order DSL
TEL: Ok, what's your ZIP code?
FIL: xxxxx
TEL: Sorry, DSL isn't available in your area yet.
FIL: Yes it is.
TEL: No, I'm sorry. The way DSL works is we have to install the equipment at your local telephone switch.
FIL: I know, and it's installed.
TEL: No it isn't. I think I'd know before you.
FIL: I'm the one who installed it 6 months ago.
TEL: Oh...... hang on while I get my manager.
Sure enough, it was available. The telco just hadn't updated their database.
...he's just as unlikely to bother with the download of a JVM (or even truly appreciate why he should).
I'm a professional Java programmer and even I rarely need a JVM on my workstation for non-programming related use. The truth is that Java on the client still sucks -- it's far too slow for a real app (even a Java word processor is noticably slower than a C/C++ version) and 99.9999999999% of applets I've seen are useless bloat that serve no useful purpose that couldn't be done better using another technology.
Java's strength is on the server... JSP/EJB are powerful technologies that have changed the world of web development for the better. They can't really do anything that ASP/COM can't do, but they're a fantastic alternative. XP may not ship with a JVM, but as long as web sites continue to use server-side Java it will be valuable... just not to Joe Schmoe.
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I learn something new every day, which isn't hard when you're starting from scratch. This is why nobody lets me administer anything and why I don't want to administer anything. Of course, I spend half my day administering our servers. Go figure.
Now I have newer version of the remote app that our firewall administrator won't let through.
AskSlashdot (always a good idea at 12:30am):
Is VNC secure enough to run on a couple of high-traffic, high-exposure web servers? Man, would I ever catch hell if I talked the firewall admin into setting the VNC port open, then we get hacked through it. My company tends to trust commercial solutions like the really flakey Altiris CarbonCopy (formerly Compaq CarbonCopy). Any experience with security bugs?
Yeah, all we need is some kind of centralized login system to do this. It could hold all of our browser data, credit card number, etc to make browsing the web easier.
Now all we need to find is a company that wants to write software to control all online transactions, profide centralized login and store our private information.
"If you feel even more strongly about giving credit where it is due, you might feel that some secondary contributors also deserve credit in the system's name. If so, far be it from us to argue against it. If you feel that X11 deserves credit in the system's name, and you want to call the system GNU/X11/Linux, please do."
Does this mean it should be Big Security Hole/Windows, since Big Security Hole is such an integral part of the Windows experience?
Typing this from a Big Security Hole/Crash/Windows 2000 Operating System.
We can't fool you! Just in case, we've decided to reinforce our igloos and ration the sled dogs' food. Can't be too careful. Rumour is that the terrorists have a heat bomb.
Your percieved "namby-pamby" attitude towards human rights accounts for a lack of Canadian culture? That doesn't make any sense. If fact, I want you to describe to me what American culture is because I don't know.
Do you consider music a part of culture? If so then Britney Spears is our culture and that's pretty pathetic. I think you'll find that upon speaking with some Canadians and Americans from different regions there are many cultures within each country. Texas sure isn't the same as New York, is it?
That's pretty ignorant. I am Canadian, but I don't say that American issues don't matter. DMCA doesn't matter because I'm Canadian, so Slashdot shouldn't post about it, is that how I should think?
Perhaps you should go back to the dump and find your soul. It's good to care about what happens in countries besides your own.
I had remote control software for my Palm VII. I think I grabbed a demo from download.com or somewhere similar. It was programmed by pointing the original remote at the Palm's IR port, which read the signal and duplicated it to a button on the remote control app.
kinda neat software, although whipping out my Palm to change channels always seemed more awkward than just using the original remote.
And exactly how do they intend on getting a giant steering wheel into space?
A barcode does not contain any product data. Our cash registers would get the price and description from a database and most employees don't have access to that database.
Getting a discount would involve co-ordinating the effort with a cashier who would let it through, or going to Sherry's cash, because she's too stupid to know better.
Anyway, the average customer cannot really do that anyway. You'd have to take the barcode from a product with a similar description and hope the cashier isn't going to notice, but in my experience cashiers tend to know the price of everything in the store anyway.
I did not RTFA, but I think it's worth noting that barcodes aren't unique. I worked retail for a couple of years and in two or three instances I found duplicates.
The store I worked at sold a lot of really cheap stuff, so maybe the problem was rogue manufacturers just randomly generating their product barcodes, hence a pinata might scan as a puzzle.
When we found duplicates we'd just print our own barcodes (which always started with four zeros, I think, to keep them unique) and stick them over top of the manufacturer's barcode.
So if I don't make money I can make photocopies of a new book and hand them out?
You're missing the point. You SHOULD be able to photocopy a book for personal use and you SHOULD be able to let other people read the book, and in fact you are allowed to do both of those.
Web radio isn't burning copies of CDs and handing them out, they're allowing other people to listen. No copies are being ditributed.
The MPAA is simply thinking that anybody who copies from broadcast will not bother to purchase the movie and that's where most of their revenues are. Unfortunately they make two incorrect assumptions:
1. That most people are still buying the videos once it hits broadcast. Since broadcast is so long after the movie hits the video stores and videos historically sell their vast majority in the first couple of months from release, the money they would be "losing" is probably very small.
2. That they would actually be losing broadcast revenue. Broadcast revenue comes per broadcast and not by ratings or how many record the movie. By the time copied movies make an impact on broadcasts the movies will be worth nothing anyway and will be playing on bad cable networks.
As no one else has mentioned, Oracle9i is also an app server and is in competition with Websphere.
Anyway, I work with Websphere 3.5 at work (4.0 is available) and can tell you that it's much more than Jakarta Tomcat.
the reason Websphere comes with Apache (well, it comes with a variant called IBM HTTP Server) is because it's not a HTTP server and it needs one to operate. Websphere handles only the jsp/java requests. Its advantage over something like Tomcat is that it's particularly well-suited to the enterprise market and supports massive scalability, intelligent load balancing (servers can talk to each other to find out what's going on) and a wide-array of add-ons (Websphere Portal Server, Websphere Translation Server, etc).
Just to throw in my own opinion, I hate Websphere. I have to run it on NT 4 and it crashes a LOT under heavy load. NT stays up as does Apache, but Websphere itself is constantly down when supporting about 70,000 unique visitors a day on two servers. I am told, however, that Websphere is extremely stable, although those same people can't seem to make MY servers stable for some reason.
DarkBasic is a programming language and dev environment that lets users with little or no programming experience create 3D games.
The great thing about DarkBasic is that it acts as a very good introduction to both programming and 3D programming (which can be a nightmare if starting with something like DirectX).
As long as Roger and Pete continue to play, The Who will be alive.
The Ox will be missed. I also seem to be regretting not shelling out the $65 to see them on their last tour.
Bad bug: If you boot from the Windows XP CD... it installs Windows!
I hope I'm not alone in really hating awards shows. Do celebrities really need another reason to get full of themselves and pat themselves on the back? I used to work in an area where I'd meet various celebrities all the time and the only one I have ever met that isn't a jerk/bitch is Martin Short, who is actually quite funny in real life.
I'll still watch the movies that look good, but I say "screw 'em" to celebrities. They should be embarrased about who they are.
Actually, we bought IBM last year and have had nothing but trouble. Management has stated all along that they wished they had not chosen IBM.
IBM basically created our web infrastructure -- servers, load balancing, database, software. It's the most unreliable piece of crap ever. The IBM project managers were complete idiots and their sales guy lied about everything.
Nobody got fired, but with the money we're now spending with another company to get this fixed I'm sure somebody would have been if it weren't an overall exec decision to go with IBM.
From now on I buy Compaq servers, Redhat operating systems and use open source software.
The problem is that with only 32-bit addressing it's impossible to programatically store all of the bugs in Microsoft's software.
Stop talking out of your ass. Windows' GUI is nothing more than explorer.exe, which also functions as its file manager. Very few GUI functions are handled by a lower part of the OS (ctrl-alt-delete dialog is, alt-tab dialog is).
Try going into the registry and setting the Shell key to "command.com"(9x/Me) or "cmd.exe"(NT/2K/XP) and you'll have a fast command prompt that can run Win32 windowed apps.
Check out litestep.com sometime.
I asked a writer to send me a word doc as rtf and even included instruction. She was going to be paid $250 for the story, but wouldn't bother saving it as rtf, so we didn't run her story and she didn't get paid.
I think the real problem is that most people are way too lazy to learn even a slight variance in what they do, let alone a huge one like change their OS:
luser: Where's Word?
bofh: KOffice.. right there on the toolbar.
luser: But it doesn't say 'Word'
bofh: It's the same thing.
luser: I like Word.
* bofh renames link to say "Microsoft Word" *
luser: Thanks!
*sniff* *sniff* what's that I smell? A bigger security threat than Windows? It can't be!
This is an actual conversation that took place between my father-in-law and the telco.
FIL: I'd like to order DSL
TEL: Ok, what's your ZIP code?
FIL: xxxxx
TEL: Sorry, DSL isn't available in your area yet.
FIL: Yes it is.
TEL: No, I'm sorry. The way DSL works is we have to install the equipment at your local telephone switch.
FIL: I know, and it's installed.
TEL: No it isn't. I think I'd know before you.
FIL: I'm the one who installed it 6 months ago.
TEL: Oh...... hang on while I get my manager.
Sure enough, it was available. The telco just hadn't updated their database.
...he's just as unlikely to bother with the download of a JVM (or even truly appreciate why he should).
I'm a professional Java programmer and even I rarely need a JVM on my workstation for non-programming related use. The truth is that Java on the client still sucks -- it's far too slow for a real app (even a Java word processor is noticably slower than a C/C++ version) and 99.9999999999% of applets I've seen are useless bloat that serve no useful purpose that couldn't be done better using another technology.
Java's strength is on the server... JSP/EJB are powerful technologies that have changed the world of web development for the better. They can't really do anything that ASP/COM can't do, but they're a fantastic alternative. XP may not ship with a JVM, but as long as web sites continue to use server-side Java it will be valuable... just not to Joe Schmoe.