What if you want more in-depth reading on tagging and other simple necessities that you cant go without knowing about well?
If it really is similar to their CVS book, it will cover that stuff quite nicely. I've used CVS for years in a variety of contexts, and that book still taught me a lot -- either features I wasn't using, or better, saner ways of using the ones I already knew. Particulary where branching and tagging are involved.
Who's going to invest their time in such a thing? Not Firefox enthusiasts, who donate their labor because they love the software, not because they want to make life easier for people who can't ditch Internet Explorer.
Hey, at least one of us is trying to do just that:-)
Seriously, this is a frequently-requested enhancement to the IE View extension. About the only thing keeping it from happening so far is my complete lack of free time. It's top of the list, though. It's almost certainly doable, but requires a good bit more additional work than some earlier posters have assumed.
Re:The "drift racing" show idea is even dumber.
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Rally drivers don't drift on tarmac, because sliding is a good way to lose speed when you have adequate traction available.
As long as you're going to nitpick, I'll nitpick too. I'll pull the handbrake and drift on wet tarmac when the situation warrants, and other rally drivers do as well. So to be accurate, rally drivers don't drift on dry tarmac.
Yeah, but only when they're in their cars -- almost never when walking. I mean, come on people, let's get the details right.
You insensitive clod. You should have posted the images as well. The ones at the top of the article are too slow.
No problem, mirrored it to a free Angelfire page here.
Re:Where to find a copy of TOSHARG?
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As linked in the article header, for one (not repeating in hopes people might seek out different mirrors).
In general, head to http://samba.org/, find the mirror nearest you, and choose "PDF" or "HTML" from the "documentation" section's opening paragraphs.
Tons of great stuff. Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, TMBG, Ornette Coleman... No Britney, etc., but then, is that a bad thing?
Seriously, they don't have quite the catalog breadth of iTunes, etc. but for a flat fee you get all-you-can-eat, actual MP3 downloads.
No, I don't work for them; and no, that's not an affiliate link. EMusic just never seems to get mentioned when we're busy bashing all the DRM and music-rental strategies.
I agree with the judge in this case, I'm fed up with script kiddies and the douchebags who champion them.
Me too. Which has what to do with Adrian Lamo, exactly? I'm not arguing that his actions were noble and wonderful, or even lawful. Don't know all the details yet.
This argument, though, smacks of "Whaddaya mean we shouldn't invade Iraq? Don't you remember 9/11?!?" Wrong target. Different perpetrators. Different crimes.
And yes, I know that's a horribly inappropriate analogy, but so is the "breaking in to a corporate server is like coming in to my house and sitting in my living room and scaring the shit out of me" argument that's being tossed around constantly in this topic.
If Lamo is to be punished / fined / whatever for what he actually did, OK. Fine. He knew the laws (whatever you or I may think of them) going in. But let's not tar-and-feather him for the similar-but-worse activities of others.
My old Lifebook 535T is still in use despite my tendency to be less-than-gentle with my gear. Solidly-built, and it was a great deal for its time. These days, it sits on a shelf happily performing firewall duties.
Never a moment's problem with the machine. Next time I get to pick a new laptop (as opposed to company-mandated specs), it's very likely to be a Fujitsu.
-paul
Old Borland C++ std::string resource leak
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Years ago at Galacticomm, our web-video server would just die, mysteriously, after several hours of use. No errors, no event log info, nothing. Just gone. This was under NT 4.
We were using Borland C++, and made heavy use of STL - the string class in particular.
Turns out that they allocated the strings using placement new, for a variation on an old C trick -- declaring a structure whose last element was a 1-char array, then actually allocating a bigger area so that array was as large as needed. So they allocated the needed space - something like:
char *space = new char[sizeof(strstruct) + extraLen];
then they created a string data structure in that space. Unfortunately, when they deleted the data later, they just deleted the plain char data -- neglecting to call the destructor, which must be done explicitly in such a situation.
The structure had a Win32 MUTEX data member, which was released by the (never-called) destructor. So the MUTEXes just piled up and up, until the app finally died for want of resource handles. And the error-reporting code itself needed Mutexes, so that did no good.
We patched the RTL source, all was well. Reported it to Borland, don't know if it was ever fixed -- it certainly wasn't in the next year of patches.
Replace FormMail.PL with the more-secure, more-robust drop-in replacement from the nms-cgi project. Still free, same config variables, just works better.
Disclaimer: I'm a contributor to the project, FormMail.PL in particular.
"Work To Rule." That is, follow the new procedures to the letter.
Obviously, someone will be anointed by the I.T. Gods with the ability to change the registry, install software, etc. Let this person do their job, every time a change needs to be made on any development machine. Don't put off inconvenient changes; in fact, bump up anything that might require registry mods. Make sure all your development tools get all the latest service packs installed.
If there's a requirement that these requests go through some I.T. higher-up approval process, all the better. Get those requests right in, one per form.
You may be amazed how quickly I.T. decides to amend their policies. I'm not proud of it, but I've used this tactic more than once where repeated appeals to reason have failed.
Ummm... "impossible" to do large-scale development, meaning Perl actually prevents this?
Perl's oop features are available, but not enforced.
So C's not a real programming language, then?
I know that it's possible to write readable perl, but nobody does it
Yeah, that's Perl's fault. Impossible.
Perl isn't standardized. There's no guarantee that ANY language feature will work in future releases
Yeah, Java never deprecates any features. Nothing in the C or C++ standards ever changed or broke existing code. And Pascal (the real programming language you mentioned, still used for so many groundbreaking large-scale projects) certainly is standardized -- who cares that none of the popular Pascal implementations came anywhere near the standards?
There's a reason why COBOL and VB are so popular in buisness, and that's that any idiot can write and maintain them
And any idiot will, which is where the fun begins. But then, I thought we were talking about Serious Professional Programmers.
What's next, Slashdot for Illogical, Ill-Informed Posters?
I see your point, but I would note that MP3 already has an officially stacked deck -- their "Payola" listings. Completely up front about that -- so perhaps there's some reason to give them moderate benefit of the doubt.
As for doing this separately -- how do we make MP3.com's catalog available (for selection and rating), without spidering it and feeling kinda dirty? Of course, since they don't seem at all interested, making a separate filtering site work is an interesting proposition.
Absolutely! That's part of the beauty of the process -- I may share some musical tastes with you, but there are probably a variety of other things I have no knowledge of, that will be suggested to me because you like them.
We could build some sort of recommendation engine that linked through to MP3.com content... but then we'd probably get sued or banished a la the meta-auction sites.
I've actually suggested collaboritve filtering / recommendations to MP3.com in the past, and the silence has been deafening. Too bad. I'd use such a service constantly, and as a musician myself, it's an exciting proposition.
It doesn't work because there's WAY too much crap on mp3.com. I've spent hours and hours searching the HUGE archives of indie content on that site, and I've come away with maybe 3 bands that I actually found worth listening to.
All true, although there is of course some great stuff to be found on mp3.com. So who could serve as the filter? How about all of the visitors to the site?
Two words: collaborative filtering. You find a song you like or don't like, click somewhere to tell mp3.com your opinion. Soon, you can filter down to stuff that's enjoyed by people who share your love of Power Pop, your hatred of Smooth Jazz, etc. Works like a charm at moviecritic.com, et al. Hell, build the rating buttons into a branded player.
The same argument was made by the pro-longbox music industry contingent in the 80's.
The plastic in-store cases were adopted, thefts didn't go up appreciably -- it was really all about marketing and visibility, just as it is with this issue.
The funnier argument was that people liked the longboxes, much as people missed full-sized album covers. Early eco-packaged CD's sold well anyway, blowing off that argument pretty quickly.
Maybe someone still has a stash of "Ban the Box" bumper stickers somewhere.
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Hey, at least one of us is trying to do just that :-)
Seriously, this is a frequently-requested enhancement to the IE View extension. About the only thing keeping it from happening so far is my complete lack of free time. It's top of the list, though. It's almost certainly doable, but requires a good bit more additional work than some earlier posters have assumed.
No problem, mirrored it to a free Angelfire page here.
As linked in the article header, for one (not repeating in hopes people might seek out different mirrors). In general, head to http://samba.org/, find the mirror nearest you, and choose "PDF" or "HTML" from the "documentation" section's opening paragraphs.
Step 2: Acquire and train a monkey. This step may take some time.
You now have a voice-activated, on-demand DVD swapper.
Suggestion: omit Planet of the Apes from the collection.
Yep. If only someone were doing this.
Oh, wait. They are. EMusic.
Tons of great stuff. Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, TMBG, Ornette Coleman... No Britney, etc., but then, is that a bad thing?
Seriously, they don't have quite the catalog breadth of iTunes, etc. but for a flat fee you get all-you-can-eat, actual MP3 downloads.
No, I don't work for them; and no, that's not an affiliate link. EMusic just never seems to get mentioned when we're busy bashing all the DRM and music-rental strategies.
-paul
Me too. Which has what to do with Adrian Lamo, exactly? I'm not arguing that his actions were noble and wonderful, or even lawful. Don't know all the details yet.
This argument, though, smacks of "Whaddaya mean we shouldn't invade Iraq? Don't you remember 9/11?!?" Wrong target. Different perpetrators. Different crimes.
And yes, I know that's a horribly inappropriate analogy, but so is the "breaking in to a corporate server is like coming in to my house and sitting in my living room and scaring the shit out of me" argument that's being tossed around constantly in this topic.
If Lamo is to be punished / fined / whatever for what he actually did, OK. Fine. He knew the laws (whatever you or I may think of them) going in. But let's not tar-and-feather him for the similar-but-worse activities of others.
My old Lifebook 535T is still in use despite my tendency to be less-than-gentle with my gear. Solidly-built, and it was a great deal for its time. These days, it sits on a shelf happily performing firewall duties.
Never a moment's problem with the machine. Next time I get to pick a new laptop (as opposed to company-mandated specs), it's very likely to be a Fujitsu.
-paul
Years ago at Galacticomm, our web-video server would just die, mysteriously, after several hours of use. No errors, no event log info, nothing. Just gone. This was under NT 4.
We were using Borland C++, and made heavy use of STL - the string class in particular.
Turns out that they allocated the strings using placement new, for a variation on an old C trick -- declaring a structure whose last element was a 1-char array, then actually allocating a bigger area so that array was as large as needed. So they allocated the needed space - something like:
then they created a string data structure in that space. Unfortunately, when they deleted the data later, they just deleted the plain char data -- neglecting to call the destructor, which must be done explicitly in such a situation.
The structure had a Win32 MUTEX data member, which was released by the (never-called) destructor. So the MUTEXes just piled up and up, until the app finally died for want of resource handles. And the error-reporting code itself needed Mutexes, so that did no good.
We patched the RTL source, all was well. Reported it to Borland, don't know if it was ever fixed -- it certainly wasn't in the next year of patches.
-paul
Workaround 3:
Replace FormMail.PL with the more-secure, more-robust drop-in replacement from the nms-cgi project. Still free, same config variables, just works better.
Disclaimer: I'm a contributor to the project, FormMail.PL in particular.
-paul
"Work To Rule." That is, follow the new procedures to the letter.
Obviously, someone will be anointed by the I.T. Gods with the ability to change the registry, install software, etc. Let this person do their job, every time a change needs to be made on any development machine. Don't put off inconvenient changes; in fact, bump up anything that might require registry mods. Make sure all your development tools get all the latest service packs installed.
If there's a requirement that these requests go through some I.T. higher-up approval process, all the better. Get those requests right in, one per form.
You may be amazed how quickly I.T. decides to amend their policies. I'm not proud of it, but I've used this tactic more than once where repeated appeals to reason have failed.
-paulWe're all very pleased that you've figured out how to use a pseudonym, but I'm afraid you'll need to do your own research.
Run along now.
And what about these evil bastards?
Make your voice heard on this...
-paulAs, while we're at it, might these.
At last -- a use for those AOL free trial CDs.
-paulUmmm... "impossible" to do large-scale development, meaning Perl actually prevents this?
So C's not a real programming language, then?
Yeah, that's Perl's fault. Impossible.
Yeah, Java never deprecates any features. Nothing in the C or C++ standards ever changed or broke existing code. And Pascal (the real programming language you mentioned, still used for so many groundbreaking large-scale projects) certainly is standardized -- who cares that none of the popular Pascal implementations came anywhere near the standards?
And any idiot will, which is where the fun begins. But then, I thought we were talking about Serious Professional Programmers.
What's next, Slashdot for Illogical, Ill-Informed Posters?
-paulI see your point, but I would note that MP3 already has an officially stacked deck -- their "Payola" listings. Completely up front about that -- so perhaps there's some reason to give them moderate benefit of the doubt.
As for doing this separately -- how do we make MP3.com's catalog available (for selection and rating), without spidering it and feeling kinda dirty? Of course, since they don't seem at all interested, making a separate filtering site work is an interesting proposition.
-paulAbsolutely! That's part of the beauty of the process -- I may share some musical tastes with you, but there are probably a variety of other things I have no knowledge of, that will be suggested to me because you like them.
-paulWe could build some sort of recommendation engine that linked through to MP3.com content... but then we'd probably get sued or banished a la the meta-auction sites.
I've actually suggested collaboritve filtering / recommendations to MP3.com in the past, and the silence has been deafening. Too bad. I'd use such a service constantly, and as a musician myself, it's an exciting proposition.
-paulAll true, although there is of course some great stuff to be found on mp3.com. So who could serve as the filter? How about all of the visitors to the site?
Two words: collaborative filtering. You find a song you like or don't like, click somewhere to tell mp3.com your opinion. Soon, you can filter down to stuff that's enjoyed by people who share your love of Power Pop, your hatred of Smooth Jazz, etc. Works like a charm at moviecritic.com, et al. Hell, build the rating buttons into a branded player.
-paulThe same argument was made by the pro-longbox music industry contingent in the 80's.
The plastic in-store cases were adopted, thefts didn't go up appreciably -- it was really all about marketing and visibility, just as it is with this issue.
The funnier argument was that people liked the longboxes, much as people missed full-sized album covers. Early eco-packaged CD's sold well anyway, blowing off that argument pretty quickly.
Maybe someone still has a stash of "Ban the Box" bumper stickers somewhere.
-paul