If you compare the amount of time it would take to add a popup blocker or tabs to fixing the CSS support, it is pretty easy to guess which would make it in first. OTOH, png support should be as easy as the popup blocker.
There are many embedded devices that use DOS to basically give them some utilities, a basic shell, and a filesystem. Then their software takes over and DOS is forgotten about. A big bonus is that it is cheap and often a low-end embedded PC (think 3/486 or Pentium PC-104) will come with a license.
That doesn't work if The Powers that Be have decided on a solution ahead of time. If TPtB decide that you must use an in-house language that takes a few thousand lines to code what Perl can do in a few dozen, you can't use the right tool. You have to do what TPtB and the PHB have decreed.
A good work environment should include your feedback! If you (the implementor) is aware of a better solution to a problem, you should present it to TPtB and your PHB. If they are unresponsive, either you need to evaluate your job or whether you are really right. They may have a specific reason why you need to use the in-house language.
There is a solution. Check out cyclone at http://www.research.att.com/projects/cyclone/
Quoth the homepage: Cyclone is a programming language based on C that is safe, meaning that it rules out programs that have buffer overflows, dangling pointers, format string attacks, and so on. High-level, type-safe languages, such as Java, Scheme, or ML also provide safety, but they don't give the same control over data representations and memory management that C does (witness the fact that the run-time systems for these languages are usually written in C.) Furthermore, porting legacy C code to these languages or interfacing with legacy C libraries is a difficult and error-prone process. The goal of Cyclone is to give programmers the same low-level control and performance of C without sacrificing safety, and to make it easy to port or interface with legacy C code.
The parent comment is exactly right. Debian installs are so easy it is rediculous. If you don't understand some of the hard words like "partition" or "mount point" then you might want to print out the instructions.
Perhaps the google ranking system could use the user submitted data to automatically tune itself. If people's rankings are deviating from the rankings the engine comes up with, it could run some simulations (or genetic algorithm or whatever) and try some slightly tweaked settings. Eventually, it should converge with the users.
This might be an interested project for someone, a genetic algorithm based neural network page ranking search engine. Those buzzwords alone would have been enough to get a few $million a couple of years ago.
And people wouldn't shake their heads and lower their eyes when I walk by - like they used to do in High School when I proudly wore my TI-55 on my belt loop... grin.
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The problem was that you didn't have an HP. shame shame
Ok, so once upon a time there was the l0pht who did some great work and believed in full disclosure. Then they get bought out by @stake and suddenly they find themselves not able to release information on Microsoft's vulnerabilities. WTF?!? are those guys just sleeping on their big pile of money now?
re: your links
I will refute the idea that it takes 2 seconds to think of the correct key combination to do a task. Some combinations I have no idea what they are, and I don't even try to think of them, I use the mouse. But if I have to copy/paste/select a word/whatever, I don't even think about it, it just happens.
But if its as an attractive girl, the geeks wouldent let her have a second alone to do anything destructive:D
No, she will be able to do anything she wants as long as no-one knows she knows anything about computers. They all just hide and try to figure out how to say "hi." OTOH, if they think she knows about/wants to talk about computers they won't leave her along for a second.
The standard Hollywood convention is that "hackers" can crack any encryption by typing *really* fast. Pretty much any other plot device is an improvement on that.
Ya, sometimes they even get past "wow, he's typing really fast and cool stuff is happening on the screen."
Every movie will lead you to shake your head if you are looking for it. They seriously need to hire geek consultants for movies, with a title like "Plausability Quality Control Manager."
For a very long time, the large ISP in my city (back when there were only a couple of local ISPs doing dialup over single T-1s) had its thousands of dollars of equipment (damn the word kit has such a good ring to it, wish I was british) sitting in a downtown office with a big glass door from something like the 1950s as the only physical defense against entry. Looking back, I should have listened to that little devil on my shoulder...
I imagine targets would be "flag" like items, such as a certain briefcase, or a physical computer login or something. Or I suppose it could be VIPs, but the game might be over at that point. Anyway, if I'm ever friends with anyone reading this and we're both CEOs, drop me a line, we'll play physical wargames.
There is no reason this couldn't be added to a free service. The reccomendations will come from users, not Napster itself (they could, but don't in the setup you describe).
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3.) Pop ups
I never, ever see unwanted popups. Thanks Firefox.
If you compare the amount of time it would take to add a popup blocker or tabs to fixing the CSS support, it is pretty easy to guess which would make it in first. OTOH, png support should be as easy as the popup blocker.
Embedded DOS? Jeez, and I thought WinCE was bad!
There are many embedded devices that use DOS to basically give them some utilities, a basic shell, and a filesystem. Then their software takes over and DOS is forgotten about. A big bonus is that it is cheap and often a low-end embedded PC (think 3/486 or Pentium PC-104) will come with a license.
That doesn't work if The Powers that Be have decided on a solution ahead of time. If TPtB decide that you must use an in-house language that takes a few thousand lines to code what Perl can do in a few dozen, you can't use the right tool. You have to do what TPtB and the PHB have decreed.
A good work environment should include your feedback! If you (the implementor) is aware of a better solution to a problem, you should present it to TPtB and your PHB. If they are unresponsive, either you need to evaluate your job or whether you are really right. They may have a specific reason why you need to use the in-house language.
Sorry, that is Foghorn Leghorn.
Yes, you run multiple dns servers, one listening on the interface to the internal network, and one listening on the interface to the external network.
It was part of the Caviar line. When my 2gig caviar failed, I got a new drive and was told the one I was returning had been recalled!
The person asking this question will not be able to complete this programming task if he has to ask questions like this one.
There is a solution. Check out cyclone at http://www.research.att.com/projects/cyclone/
Quoth the homepage:
Cyclone is a programming language based on C that is safe, meaning that it rules out programs that have buffer overflows, dangling pointers, format string attacks, and so on. High-level, type-safe languages, such as Java, Scheme, or ML also provide safety, but they don't give the same control over data representations and memory management that C does (witness the fact that the run-time systems for these languages are usually written in C.) Furthermore, porting legacy C code to these languages or interfacing with legacy C libraries is a difficult and error-prone process. The goal of Cyclone is to give programmers the same low-level control and performance of C without sacrificing safety, and to make it easy to port or interface with legacy C code.
Cheers from a SDSMT student!
I think we all know the real reason is the intuitive nature of Microsoft Windows. Or something...
The parent comment is exactly right. Debian installs are so easy it is rediculous. If you don't understand some of the hard words like "partition" or "mount point" then you might want to print out the instructions.
Perhaps the google ranking system could use the user submitted data to automatically tune itself. If people's rankings are deviating from the rankings the engine comes up with, it could run some simulations (or genetic algorithm or whatever) and try some slightly tweaked settings. Eventually, it should converge with the users.
This might be an interested project for someone, a genetic algorithm based neural network page ranking search engine. Those buzzwords alone would have been enough to get a few $million a couple of years ago.
It was called Kali, but I have no idea who the guy is.
You can do that with 2.4s traffic shaping, or one of the user-space shaping daemons.
And people wouldn't shake their heads and lower their eyes when I walk by - like they used to do in High School when I proudly wore my TI-55 on my belt loop... grin.
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The problem was that you didn't have an HP. shame shame
Ok, so once upon a time there was the l0pht who did some great work and believed in full disclosure. Then they get bought out by @stake and suddenly they find themselves not able to release information on Microsoft's vulnerabilities. WTF?!? are those guys just sleeping on their big pile of money now?
You should want to go to defcon or the like.
re: your links
I will refute the idea that it takes 2 seconds to think of the correct key combination to do a task. Some combinations I have no idea what they are, and I don't even try to think of them, I use the mouse. But if I have to copy/paste/select a word/whatever, I don't even think about it, it just happens.
No, she will be able to do anything she wants as long as no-one knows she knows anything about computers. They all just hide and try to figure out how to say "hi." OTOH, if they think she knows about/wants to talk about computers they won't leave her along for a second.
Ya, sometimes they even get past "wow, he's typing really fast and cool stuff is happening on the screen."
Every movie will lead you to shake your head if you are looking for it. They seriously need to hire geek consultants for movies, with a title like "Plausability Quality Control Manager."
For a very long time, the large ISP in my city (back when there were only a couple of local ISPs doing dialup over single T-1s) had its thousands of dollars of equipment (damn the word kit has such a good ring to it, wish I was british) sitting in a downtown office with a big glass door from something like the 1950s as the only physical defense against entry. Looking back, I should have listened to that little devil on my shoulder...
I imagine targets would be "flag" like items, such as a certain briefcase, or a physical computer login or something. Or I suppose it could be VIPs, but the game might be over at that point. Anyway, if I'm ever friends with anyone reading this and we're both CEOs, drop me a line, we'll play physical wargames.
There is no reason this couldn't be added to a free service. The reccomendations will come from users, not Napster itself (they could, but don't in the setup you describe).