MySQL is small, simple, direct, and fast. Basically, in MySQL you want to do the computation within the SQL statement rather than a read old-value, compute new-value, write new value.
What MySQL does NOT handle gracefully is a combination of fast updates and slow readers. The newer versions may help somewhat. Directing slow readers to a slave MySQL definitely helps. There is a reason that MySQL gives back how long a query took. It's not just bragging rights.
Autocad is pretty usable with left-hand on keyboard and right-hand on mouse.
Buttons on the mouse are a bad idea. The mouse moves when the button is pressed.
Good point about the U.S. switching to metric. Of all the things that need changing, that has to be the easiest;(
>>Can you name a single improvement to the concept of the wheel in those years?
http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_7_13_98.htm l
Just as a square rides smoothly across a roadbed of linked inverted catenaries, other regular polygons, including equilateral triangles, pentagons, and hexagons, also ride smoothly over curves made up of appropriately selected pieces of inverted catenaries.
OpenBSD's primary goal is security. If Theo can't be a "nice guy", seems like a small price to pay.
.NOT is probably a more descriptive term for.NET. My guess is that it will turn into Microsoft-proprietary rent-a-service glue, and that it will introduce an order of magnitude more security issues than IIS. I've described SirCam and Nimda as "semi-intelligent"..NET will bring out the "intelligent" varities.
>>In this message there is a typo: press the letter of the typo to close this window.
Cruel, but effective. They have to actually read the message. Otherwise, who has time?
Yep, you could sure make some interesting viruses for emacs. Lisp-based, real interesting. Only problem is, you have to convince all these people to arrange things the same way. You'll have better luck convincing the vi-people to use emacs and the emacs-people to use vi. Ever see a blind man run through a room where the furniture has been "re-arranged"? Pity the poor would-be virus.
It's not that software not written by Microsoft is somehow magically secure. It's that software written by Microsoft is magically insecure.
I doubt that Open/Star Office are immune, but they are unlikely to be so riduculously susceptible.
There have been bugs in sendmail &co. There are probably a few left, but they are getting harder and harder to find. If anything, Microsoft is getting easier to exploit.
>>It does *ask* for permission to run the macro, right? How naive.
The linked Microsoft site. It asks if I want to run scripts. I say NO. Several times I say NO. It still makes a run-time error in a script and asks if I want to debug. The CodeRed page gives me two run-time errors without running scripts.
Oh, it will ask for some. But it will run several without thinking of asking. Any, anytime, anyhow, anywhere is enough to breach security.
Bad press where the suits read it.
The cognoscenti have long known that Microsoft is full of holes, several of which will not be fixed.
Quick, how many people think that Code Red has been fixed and resolved?
Better chance, yeah. But is it a better enough chance?
>>Now, this doesn't mean that it's "airtight", but I believe that it will prove to be more resiliant from a security standpoint.
Yeah, like with the available patches, IIS and outlook are now more secure than they were a few months ago.
>>If it's a war against Terrorism,
Nobody's hands are clean.
But, must mankind always be so messed up? I think we better learn, in a hurry, or things will be much worse.
Right. The Taliban want this to be US versus Muslims. That by itself is reason enough.
The terrorists might have been Muslim once apon a time, but have long since gone over the edge. Osama's own family has disowned him.
I'm not a ham, but I've known a few.
Seems like the code requirement should be fairly easy, somewhere around 5 wpm if my bad memory is right.
The main reason for code is that, under bad circumstances, with bad equipment, it is possible to actually rend and receive information.
I don't know what the modern equivalent would be, but it seems that a good ham used to be able to turn a 5-tube am radio into a transmitter/receiver capable of world-wide communication attached to a window screen.
Something seems strange.
>>Windows Update has covered patches for every major exploit in the last 6 months. They have been phasing in server patches for quite some time now.
Possible if the server patches they are phasing in are for other than major exploits.
Possible if server exploits are not "major exploits"
Am I missing something here?
Read the trend. Project the trend. Watch the response.
Remember Melissa? Melissa was nice.
The problem isn't the past and current holes. It is the holes of the future.
At this stage,/. is about the most useful site for keeping up with Microsoft security.
I suspect that the security in NT was designed to meet the theoretical requirements of C2 (? IIRC) rather than give a practical level of usable security. If a user can access a network resource with any program, (s)he can access it with all programs. A name can be a user or a group, not both. Effectively, security is NT (Not There).
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MySQL is small, simple, direct, and fast. Basically, in MySQL you want to do the computation within the SQL statement rather than a read old-value, compute new-value, write new value.
What MySQL does NOT handle gracefully is a combination of fast updates and slow readers. The newer versions may help somewhat. Directing slow readers to a slave MySQL definitely helps. There is a reason that MySQL gives back how long a query took. It's not just bragging rights.
The space bar also works for most uses of enter, including repeat last command. Enter is a right-hand (mouse-hand) key.
Autocad is pretty usable with left-hand on keyboard and right-hand on mouse. ;(
Buttons on the mouse are a bad idea. The mouse moves when the button is pressed.
Good point about the U.S. switching to metric. Of all the things that need changing, that has to be the easiest
The horse collar was invented in the so-called "dark ages" IIRC. Without something to pull the cart, the wheels don't do that much good.
>>Can you name a single improvement to the concept of the wheel in those years?
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http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_7_13_98.ht
Just as a square rides smoothly across a roadbed of linked inverted catenaries, other regular polygons, including equilateral triangles, pentagons, and hexagons, also ride smoothly over curves made up of appropriately selected pieces of inverted catenaries.
Hmmm. The "anti-American" sentiment working for Americans. Probably not a first, but ...
OpenBSD's primary goal is security. If Theo can't be a "nice guy", seems like a small price to pay.
.NOT is probably a more descriptive term for .NET. My guess is that it will turn into Microsoft-proprietary rent-a-service glue, and that it will introduce an order of magnitude more security issues than IIS.
.NET will bring out the "intelligent" varities.
I've described SirCam and Nimda as "semi-intelligent".
>>In this message there is a typo: press the letter of the typo to close this window.
Cruel, but effective. They have to actually read the message. Otherwise, who has time?
Yep, you could sure make some interesting viruses for emacs. Lisp-based, real interesting. Only problem is, you have to convince all these people to arrange things the same way. You'll have better luck convincing the vi-people to use emacs and the emacs-people to use vi. Ever see a blind man run through a room where the furniture has been "re-arranged"? Pity the poor would-be virus.
It's not that software not written by Microsoft is somehow magically secure. It's that software written by Microsoft is magically insecure.
I doubt that Open/Star Office are immune, but they are unlikely to be so riduculously susceptible.
There have been bugs in sendmail &co. There are probably a few left, but they are getting harder and harder to find. If anything, Microsoft is getting easier to exploit.
>>It does *ask* for permission to run the macro, right? How naive.
The linked Microsoft site. It asks if I want to run scripts. I say NO. Several times I say NO. It still makes a run-time error in a script and asks if I want to debug. The CodeRed page gives me two run-time errors without running scripts.
Oh, it will ask for some. But it will run several without thinking of asking. Any, anytime, anyhow, anywhere is enough to breach security.
Bad press where the suits read it.
The cognoscenti have long known that Microsoft is full of holes, several of which will not be fixed.
Quick, how many people think that Code Red has been fixed and resolved?
Better chance, yeah. But is it a better enough chance?
>>Now, this doesn't mean that it's "airtight", but I believe that it will prove to be more resiliant from a security standpoint.
Yeah, like with the available patches, IIS and outlook are now more secure than they were a few months ago.
Vulnerability: not news.
Microsoft attempting to do something about it: news.
Microsoft fixing vulnerability in old versions: would really be news.
>>If it's a war against Terrorism,
Nobody's hands are clean.
But, must mankind always be so messed up? I think we better learn, in a hurry, or things will be much worse.
Right. The Taliban want this to be US versus Muslims. That by itself is reason enough.
The terrorists might have been Muslim once apon a time, but have long since gone over the edge. Osama's own family has disowned him.
Then there is the square wheel.
Bumpy on the flat, but fairly smooth on a corderoy road with the right size logs.
I'm not a ham, but I've known a few.
Seems like the code requirement should be fairly easy, somewhere around 5 wpm if my bad memory is right.
The main reason for code is that, under bad circumstances, with bad equipment, it is possible to actually rend and receive information.
I don't know what the modern equivalent would be, but it seems that a good ham used to be able to turn a 5-tube am radio into a transmitter/receiver capable of world-wide communication attached to a window screen.
And vi/emacs is to Notepad/Word as *NIX is to Windows.
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More like demonstrating, say on the firing range, that the safety does NOT function properly.
Something seems strange.
>>Windows Update has covered patches for every major exploit in the last 6 months. They have been phasing in server patches for quite some time now.
Possible if the server patches they are phasing in are for other than major exploits.
Possible if server exploits are not "major exploits"
Am I missing something here?
Read the trend. Project the trend. Watch the response. /. is about the most useful site for keeping up with Microsoft security.
Remember Melissa? Melissa was nice.
The problem isn't the past and current holes. It is the holes of the future.
At this stage,
I suspect that the security in NT was designed to meet the theoretical requirements of C2 (? IIRC) rather than give a practical level of usable security. If a user can access a network resource with any program, (s)he can access it with all programs. A name can be a user or a group, not both. Effectively, security is NT (Not There).