... my buddy and I were reading about different poly-morphic and boot-sector viruses in the program F-Prot. We came across one that was written in Visual Basic - and laughed. Boy, have things changed!
Anybody remember the IDEs for Turbo Pascal 6 and 7 and Turbo C++? Yellow on Blue is the way to go - especially if you have reserved words in white, comments and strings in green, and operators and numbers in different shades of cyan.:-) Even on my puny CGA monitor, I never got eye strain.
I think that the main issue here is not that they have removed their support, (which is certainly their right) but they have threatened him with legal and/or university action and warned him not to republish his site elsewhere. Depending on what agreements he signed or made by attending the University or putting up his site on their servers, they are very probably well within their legal rights. Of course, that does not mean that what they are doing is not morally reprehensable. Students at the University of Utah should protest its actions. My advice to Flikx, though, is to do everything that they say. Having to start your degree over elsewhere is no laughing matter, legal reprocussions aside.
I work at a company that designs conduit for some major telcos, and I know for a fact that high-count fiber is on about a 2-year back-order. If you want low-count fiber (only a couple of strands), you can get it easily, but most companies only want fiber with counts in the hundreds (it cost's about the same to put it in the ground, so why waste time with low counts).
If you need to build your company's information infrastructure around yourself for job security, either your company is going down the shitter (they don't realize how much they need a good programmer like you) or you are a really crappy programmer (you actually aren't valuable). If the first is true, you can surely get a job at a better company. If you belong in the second category, you can probably still get a job somewhere else, and you probably write un-maintainable code already!
I saw a couple of comments lambasting the poster for saying the word "Access". I am sure that he only meant using Access as a front end, not as the acutal database itself.
As I write this, there is a banner ad for safeWeb at the top of my screen. It depicts a person's eye peering through a hole, and a finger comes along and pokes the eye. Now my eyes hurt from just looking at it.
There will always be a place in my heart for Borland. The first real programming language I ever learned was Turbo Pascal. The Turbo Pascal 7.0 IDE was the best text mode IDE ever. (It could highlight my code with ease even on my 8088). At the height of MASM's (the Microsoft Macro Assembler) popularity, Turbo Assembler could not only assemble its own syntax (called Ideal Mode), but it could also assemble MASM syntax faster than MASM could itself. TASM even went so far as to emulate all the bugs in all the different versions of MASM! Just thinking about it brings a tear to my eye. Borland, to me, was the Mount Olympus of the Programming Gods. Why has Borland never dominated over Microsoft in the PC compiler market? Two things: Microsoft (of course) leveraged their OS monopoly; and Borland had some shitty management.
The difference between spam and TV commercials/banner ads/radio commercials is the fact that spammers are pushing their ads on you without your consent. Spam wastes your time and system resources (I assume you have an e-mail account size limit), and you cannot keep people from spamming you. I can always change the cannel on the TV.
Now it seems that spammers can even find out where you are (via your IP address and those nifty HTML-reading e-mail clients). I thought the virus link was kind of far-fetched.
I don't see a solution to spam anywhere on the horizon, but this is a bad development.
I run a small network at work with a Win2K server and 98/ME/2K clients. You have to log into the domain to get access to sensitive files, and the server vaildates your password. The stupid part is that the client computer stores its own copy of the password! That means that if anyone gets access to a client computer they have the passwords of everyone who has logged in there.
I bet that there is a registry key somewhere that would turn this "feature" off, but my point is that the whole Microsoft mindset is not geared toward security. Leaving gaping holes in security by default, Microsoft has arguably made thier products easier to use, but at what expense? If security were a priority, user-friendliness would evolve rapidly. Securty, however, does not just spring up out of the ground.
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... my buddy and I were reading about different poly-morphic and boot-sector viruses in the program F-Prot. We came across one that was written in Visual Basic - and laughed. Boy, have things changed!
Anybody remember the IDEs for Turbo Pascal 6 and 7 and Turbo C++? Yellow on Blue is the way to go - especially if you have reserved words in white, comments and strings in green, and operators and numbers in different shades of cyan. :-) Even on my puny CGA monitor, I never got eye strain.
-1 Flaimbait, I say.
I think that the main issue here is not that they have removed their support, (which is certainly their right) but they have threatened him with legal and/or university action and warned him not to republish his site elsewhere. Depending on what agreements he signed or made by attending the University or putting up his site on their servers, they are very probably well within their legal rights. Of course, that does not mean that what they are doing is not morally reprehensable. Students at the University of Utah should protest its actions. My advice to Flikx, though, is to do everything that they say. Having to start your degree over elsewhere is no laughing matter, legal reprocussions aside.
Whenever IE or Outlook or other Microsoft programs have this type of full security breach, they should exploit the problem to apply a patch :-).
I work at a company that designs conduit for some major telcos, and I know for a fact that high-count fiber is on about a 2-year back-order. If you want low-count fiber (only a couple of strands), you can get it easily, but most companies only want fiber with counts in the hundreds (it cost's about the same to put it in the ground, so why waste time with low counts).
If you need to build your company's information infrastructure around yourself for job security, either your company is going down the shitter (they don't realize how much they need a good programmer like you) or you are a really crappy programmer (you actually aren't valuable). If the first is true, you can surely get a job at a better company. If you belong in the second category, you can probably still get a job somewhere else, and you probably write un-maintainable code already!
I saw a couple of comments lambasting the poster for saying the word "Access". I am sure that he only meant using Access as a front end, not as the acutal database itself.
As I write this, there is a banner ad for safeWeb at the top of my screen. It depicts a person's eye peering through a hole, and a finger comes along and pokes the eye. Now my eyes hurt from just looking at it.
This is great news. In case you haven't seen Deja in a couple of years, it sucks now. Google is just the company to go in and clean it up.
There will always be a place in my heart for Borland. The first real programming language I ever learned was Turbo Pascal. The Turbo Pascal 7.0 IDE was the best text mode IDE ever. (It could highlight my code with ease even on my 8088). At the height of MASM's (the Microsoft Macro Assembler) popularity, Turbo Assembler could not only assemble its own syntax (called Ideal Mode), but it could also assemble MASM syntax faster than MASM could itself. TASM even went so far as to emulate all the bugs in all the different versions of MASM! Just thinking about it brings a tear to my eye. Borland, to me, was the Mount Olympus of the Programming Gods. Why has Borland never dominated over Microsoft in the PC compiler market? Two things: Microsoft (of course) leveraged their OS monopoly; and Borland had some shitty management.
The difference between spam and TV commercials/banner ads/radio commercials is the fact that spammers are pushing their ads on you without your consent. Spam wastes your time and system resources (I assume you have an e-mail account size limit), and you cannot keep people from spamming you. I can always change the cannel on the TV.
Now it seems that spammers can even find out where you are (via your IP address and those nifty HTML-reading e-mail clients). I thought the virus link was kind of far-fetched.
I don't see a solution to spam anywhere on the horizon, but this is a bad development.
that will be a reward for the team who is the first to port Linux to the X-Box.
:-)
I run a small network at work with a Win2K server and 98/ME/2K clients. You have to log into the domain to get access to sensitive files, and the server vaildates your password. The stupid part is that the client computer stores its own copy of the password! That means that if anyone gets access to a client computer they have the passwords of everyone who has logged in there.
I bet that there is a registry key somewhere that would turn this "feature" off, but my point is that the whole Microsoft mindset is not geared toward security. Leaving gaping holes in security by default, Microsoft has arguably made thier products easier to use, but at what expense? If security were a priority, user-friendliness would evolve rapidly. Securty, however, does not just spring up out of the ground.