You should also do the following (Assuming your using NT/2000/XP): Change the security on that directory to explicitly disallow any access by users who are not in the administrator group. Set the ownership of that directory to a user in the administrator group. Then, you'd of course be browsing as someone that isn't in the administrator group (right?) and even if the spyware code attempts to change the readonly bit, it wouldn't be able or write to the directory. You might also set up a new account on your box that has very low privileges and run your browser as a that user (with runas.exe or the appropriate options set on the shortcut that launches the browser).
I have an Ibook and love it. No complaints. But still I use a pc at home as well. With Windows 2000, got another with linux. I am pretty much OS nuetral and use the best one for each particualar aspect of my job. exchange on 2000(exchange is a great ap if you know what your doing) linux for file serving, print servers, backups and an accounting app(not written for linux, written for sco but fiddled with til it worked).
I use my Ibook on the road and at work and to keep me abreast of the Mac Os. In the IT field we need to learn em all, not jihad behind one.
Attention!, this reasonable and rational thought process will NOT be tolerated on Slashdot. Please register for a mandatory "*Insert OS Here* Is Best Brainwashing" course.
Looking at the release notes shows that the only change from 1.2.1 to 1.2 is the fix for the DHTML bug, but the installation images (Win32) went from 10.81 MB (11,339,472 bytes) to 10.95 MB (11,491,024 bytes). Anyone know why it got so much bigger? Was the fix that involved?
The reason I've stayed with my now old-school Palm IIIx is because it's invaluable to me. It doesn't have wireless or color, but it has my life on it. I now don't forget to carry the appropriate piece of paper or list with me because I always enter these things into my PDA. I'm currenlty 2700 miles from my home, but my PDA has all of the information I might need for my work or personal use (family phone numbers, infrequently seen friends who I thought of seeing because I was near them, and I had there number). It's also got important work information and useful lists. I can pop into a record store and pick up a new album on my list. I can also pop up several useful astronomy applications and get some casual binocular observing in, and log the results.
My IIIx is very useful because it's simple, reliable and omni-present. I carry it everywhere.
About 2 years ago, I had service with Airtouch (now Verizon?) and the service had gone to hell in the Phoenix area. I got so fed up that I switched to Sprint and called Airtouch and told them to cancel my service. They, of course, said that I had a contract. I spoke with a supervisor, who reminded me of the contract. I reminded him that the contract also required that they provide cellular phone service, and that they were not holding up their end of the bargain. He agreed (I think alot of people were dropping them at the time), and I terminated the contract with no penalty.
Moral of the story: Talk to your provider, you might get satisfaction.
The primary reason why I use Windows as my OS of choice is that I make my living writing software that runs on Windows. All of my machines run NT/2000 or XP. My Domain controller and print server runs on an NT 4.0 box (because it's a 486/50 with 32 MB of RAM), my main desktop runs 2000 Pro, and my File Server/Terminal Server box runs 2000 Server. My laptop runs XP Pro. All of these boxes are rock stable (I saw a few blue screens on my old 486 during NT 3.51 days, but that's it). I am productive on these machines when I develop software, work from home (I'm a developer at work, too), when I surf the web, write my resume, work on my finances and do my taxes.
The second reason why I use Windows as my OS of choice is that there are no compelling reasons for me to switch to Linux or Mac. The Mac laptops are very cool, and I'd love to have one to play with, but I need to run.NET to do my job, and emulation isn't fast enough.
Now, I'm not the kind of person to hate a company because of it's success, but I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, either. They've done some illegal things and should be punished for it (more severly than they currently are).
Lastly, I have to say there are some things to do that make running a Windows Box as secure as possible. 1. Never, ever, ever, run Outlook. It's a steaming turd. 2. Avoid, like the plague, Internet Explorer. These two apps are the primary reasons for most of the recent major virii outbreaks. I use Mozilla as my browser, and couldn't be happier. Keeping my Windows boxes up to speed as far as security goes is pretty straight forward. hfnetchk and Windows Update keep you informed on security patches and installation is pretty easy. Read Bugtraq and subscribe to MS Security Bulletins to keep yourself informed.
I've found some of the biggest improvements in my career, lately, have come by reading and using two books: Modern C++ Design, by Alexandrescu and Generitive Programming by Czarnecki.
IMHO, these two books are two of the most important books to be written in recent years. The first book is C++ specific, but the second is not. Both talk, in there own ways, about ways to improve software design and implementation by more clearly expressing design in code.
I think that, regardless of your language or field of choice, the increasing complexity of software development requires that you move towards an expressiveness that is richer and puts more responsibility on the automated tools at your displosal to generate correct software. Modern C++ Design talks about doing this via C++ constructs like templates.
Both will make you a better software developer, and both are time consuming reads. I think, with your breath of knowledge, that the important thing for you to do is to stay current with modern techniques of software design and modern implmenetation technologies. Languages and implementaion details should be something you can pick up quickly.
Hopefully, you can find an employer who will value these skills.
This kind of attitude really pisses me off. The straw man argument that, if you complain about our CDs not playing in your player you must be a pirate really makes my blood boil.
#include "SoapBox.h"
I have never pirated music. However, I do have the marjority of my CDs on my computer for ease of use. At the moment, I'm sitting in New York, 2700 miles from my home in Arizona, listening to a large sample of MY music on my laptop while I work. This is Fair Use, as I paid for all of my CDs. I have the same collection at work so I can listen to the music at work. In order to combat the music "piracy" threat, manufacturers are impinging upon my fair use. Grrrr.
I don't mean to be a troll. I personally feel that sharing music online is stealing, but at the same time the music industry must get up to speed with the realities of the 21st century. They need to modifiy their business model to include distribution of music in an inexpensive and easy way that allows people to purchase only the music they want. They also need to find more artists who create an entire album worth of useful music, but I digress.
Most of this copy protection, I expect, will be broken soon enough, and the record industry will realize that this is doing nothing but wasting money and alienating customers.
harumph!
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I've been drooling over an OSX Mac for a while, but I earn my money writing software for Windows. That being said, is OSX now fast enought to reasonable host Virtual PC and Visual Studio.net? I'd be willing to spring for a top of the line Powerbook or G4, but I'd need the environment to run at (hopefully) something like 80% of what I get on my P4 2Ghz machine.
Note: I currently have a Toshiba laptop and a Dell Desktop, and they both rock as development platforms. However, getting a Mac (especially a laptop) would be really fun and let me start experimenting with developing for the Mac GUI (I've already got a fair amount of linux/unix systems programming experience, so that would be a nice starting place on the mac).
But did he cause $450K in damages, or did he steal $450K in goods (or some combination of such)? Someone somewhere assigned this value to the theft of some company property (according to the article) and some intellectual property. Does LucasFilm feel that they would have had $450K more in ticket sales if this hadn't leaked? That'd be an interesting argument to back up with numbers. I understand the review was good (the link was slow for me), so it might even have done some good.
Can anyone with any knowledge of this kind of crime determine how the value was attached? $450K seems kind of steep. I'd say cost of materials, cost of lost revenue (maybe 20 people saw it and wouldn't pay $8 a pop in the theatres)?
This highlights an important problem with current (U.S.) University programs. Most majors (especially engineering related) should be advanced to 5 or 6 year degrees, as there is simply more information to be learned.
I graduated in 1993, and I've been involved in hiring junior engineers, and while I think it is important and necessary for employers to educate and train their new recruits, many students come out of college (with BS degrees) un-prepared for professional software development. They know how to write code, but they don't know how to develop software.
For computer science, I think each student should have to do a 2-4 semester (where semesters == 1/2 of a school year) projects where they take an idea from conception through development, shipping and maintenance, as a team. Perhaps during the first year they maintain an existing product, and during the second year they develope something new from the ground up.
Great idea, so we'll have 6,000 lb flying SUVs driven by distracted, cell phone talking, consumer monkeys, in 3 Dimensions. Then, when they collide trying to run the red light, they'll plummit 2000 feet and crush my house. Great idea.
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You should also do the following (Assuming your using NT/2000/XP): Change the security on that directory to explicitly disallow any access by users who are not in the administrator group. Set the ownership of that directory to a user in the administrator group. Then, you'd of course be browsing as someone that isn't in the administrator group (right?) and even if the spyware code attempts to change the readonly bit, it wouldn't be able or write to the directory. You might also set up a new account on your box that has very low privileges and run your browser as a that user (with runas.exe or the appropriate options set on the shortcut that launches the browser).
I have an Ibook and love it. No complaints. But still I use a pc at home as well. With Windows 2000, got another with linux. I am pretty much OS nuetral and use the best one for each particualar aspect of my job. exchange on 2000(exchange is a great ap if you know what your doing) linux for file serving, print servers, backups and an accounting app(not written for linux, written for sco but fiddled with til it worked).
I use my Ibook on the road and at work and to keep me abreast of the Mac Os. In the IT field we need to learn em all, not jihad behind one.
Attention! , this reasonable and rational thought process will NOT be tolerated on Slashdot. Please register for a mandatory "*Insert OS Here* Is Best Brainwashing" course.
Looking at the release notes shows that the only change from 1.2.1 to 1.2 is the fix for the DHTML bug, but the installation images (Win32) went from 10.81 MB (11,339,472 bytes) to 10.95 MB (11,491,024 bytes). Anyone know why it got so much bigger? Was the fix that involved?
The reason I've stayed with my now old-school Palm IIIx is because it's invaluable to me. It doesn't have wireless or color, but it has my life on it. I now don't forget to carry the appropriate piece of paper or list with me because I always enter these things into my PDA. I'm currenlty 2700 miles from my home, but my PDA has all of the information I might need for my work or personal use (family phone numbers, infrequently seen friends who I thought of seeing because I was near them, and I had there number). It's also got important work information and useful lists. I can pop into a record store and pick up a new album on my list. I can also pop up several useful astronomy applications and get some casual binocular observing in, and log the results.
My IIIx is very useful because it's simple, reliable and omni-present. I carry it everywhere.
I meant the parent post as a joke. I see it was moderated : Informative=2, Funny=1, Total=3.
Wow, I'm either remarkably subtle or really stupid. I'm goin' with the former. You gotta have hope.
Unfortunately, the poster of this Ask Slashdot question is the CEO of Connected.com.
About 2 years ago, I had service with Airtouch (now Verizon?) and the service had gone to hell in the Phoenix area. I got so fed up that I switched to Sprint and called Airtouch and told them to cancel my service. They, of course, said that I had a contract. I spoke with a supervisor, who reminded me of the contract. I reminded him that the contract also required that they provide cellular phone service, and that they were not holding up their end of the bargain. He agreed (I think alot of people were dropping them at the time), and I terminated the contract with no penalty.
Moral of the story: Talk to your provider, you might get satisfaction.
The primary reason why I use Windows as my OS of choice is that I make my living writing software that runs on Windows. All of my machines run NT/2000 or XP. My Domain controller and print server runs on an NT 4.0 box (because it's a 486/50 with 32 MB of RAM), my main desktop runs 2000 Pro, and my File Server/Terminal Server box runs 2000 Server. My laptop runs XP Pro. All of these boxes are rock stable (I saw a few blue screens on my old 486 during NT 3.51 days, but that's it). I am productive on these machines when I develop software, work from home (I'm a developer at work, too), when I surf the web, write my resume, work on my finances and do my taxes.
.NET to do my job, and emulation isn't fast enough.
The second reason why I use Windows as my OS of choice is that there are no compelling reasons for me to switch to Linux or Mac. The Mac laptops are very cool, and I'd love to have one to play with, but I need to run
Now, I'm not the kind of person to hate a company because of it's success, but I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, either. They've done some illegal things and should be punished for it (more severly than they currently are).
Lastly, I have to say there are some things to do that make running a Windows Box as secure as possible. 1. Never, ever, ever, run Outlook. It's a steaming turd. 2. Avoid, like the plague, Internet Explorer. These two apps are the primary reasons for most of the recent major virii outbreaks. I use Mozilla as my browser, and couldn't be happier. Keeping my Windows boxes up to speed as far as security goes is pretty straight forward. hfnetchk and Windows Update keep you informed on security patches and installation is pretty easy. Read Bugtraq and subscribe to MS Security Bulletins to keep yourself informed.
Harumph!
I've found some of the biggest improvements in my career, lately, have come by reading and using two books: Modern C++ Design, by Alexandrescu and Generitive Programming by Czarnecki.
IMHO, these two books are two of the most important books to be written in recent years. The first book is C++ specific, but the second is not. Both talk, in there own ways, about ways to improve software design and implementation by more clearly expressing design in code.
I think that, regardless of your language or field of choice, the increasing complexity of software development requires that you move towards an expressiveness that is richer and puts more responsibility on the automated tools at your displosal to generate correct software. Modern C++ Design talks about doing this via C++ constructs like templates.
Both will make you a better software developer, and both are time consuming reads. I think, with your breath of knowledge, that the important thing for you to do is to stay current with modern techniques of software design and modern implmenetation technologies. Languages and implementaion details should be something you can pick up quickly.
Hopefully, you can find an employer who will value these skills.
JC
Or it's broken, here's another one. News searching on Google is your friend.
Try Reuters
This kind of attitude really pisses me off. The straw man argument that, if you complain about our CDs not playing in your player you must be a pirate really makes my blood boil.
#include "SoapBox.h"
I have never pirated music. However, I do have the marjority of my CDs on my computer for ease of use. At the moment, I'm sitting in New York, 2700 miles from my home in Arizona, listening to a large sample of MY music on my laptop while I work. This is Fair Use, as I paid for all of my CDs. I have the same collection at work so I can listen to the music at work. In order to combat the music "piracy" threat, manufacturers are impinging upon my fair use. Grrrr.
I don't mean to be a troll. I personally feel that sharing music online is stealing, but at the same time the music industry must get up to speed with the realities of the 21st century. They need to modifiy their business model to include distribution of music in an inexpensive and easy way that allows people to purchase only the music they want. They also need to find more artists who create an entire album worth of useful music, but I digress.
Most of this copy protection, I expect, will be broken soon enough, and the record industry will realize that this is doing nothing but wasting money and alienating customers.
harumph!
I've been drooling over an OSX Mac for a while, but I earn my money writing software for Windows. That being said, is OSX now fast enought to reasonable host Virtual PC and Visual Studio.net? I'd be willing to spring for a top of the line Powerbook or G4, but I'd need the environment to run at (hopefully) something like 80% of what I get on my P4 2Ghz machine.
Note: I currently have a Toshiba laptop and a Dell Desktop, and they both rock as development platforms. However, getting a Mac (especially a laptop) would be really fun and let me start experimenting with developing for the Mac GUI (I've already got a fair amount of linux/unix systems programming experience, so that would be a nice starting place on the mac).
Anyone doing this?
$24.50 plus shipping, as of 16 October, 2002
But did he cause $450K in damages, or did he steal $450K in goods (or some combination of such)? Someone somewhere assigned this value to the theft of some company property (according to the article) and some intellectual property. Does LucasFilm feel that they would have had $450K more in ticket sales if this hadn't leaked? That'd be an interesting argument to back up with numbers. I understand the review was good (the link was slow for me), so it might even have done some good.
Can anyone with any knowledge of this kind of crime determine how the value was attached? $450K seems kind of steep. I'd say cost of materials, cost of lost revenue (maybe 20 people saw it and wouldn't pay $8 a pop in the theatres)?
$450K seems kind of punative, IMHO.
I know, this is Karma whoring, but:
lucid and valid anectdotes?
From Slashdot?
See, now you don't want those CPUs running so cool, do you? Gonna use my box as a foot warmer.
Cop: Son, do you realize you were going 45 in a 25? License, and, um, registration please.
Obi Wannabe: These are not the droids you are looking for.
Cop: What?
Obi Wannabe: Move Along.
Cop: Get out of the car and place your hands where I can see them...
This highlights an important problem with current (U.S.) University programs. Most majors (especially engineering related) should be advanced to 5 or 6 year degrees, as there is simply more information to be learned.
I graduated in 1993, and I've been involved in hiring junior engineers, and while I think it is important and necessary for employers to educate and train their new recruits, many students come out of college (with BS degrees) un-prepared for professional software development. They know how to write code, but they don't know how to develop software.
For computer science, I think each student should have to do a 2-4 semester (where semesters == 1/2 of a school year) projects where they take an idea from conception through development, shipping and maintenance, as a team. Perhaps during the first year they maintain an existing product, and during the second year they develope something new from the ground up.
I should note that I didn't make this up, I heard it somewhere ages ago.
Marketing is the act of convincing you to buy something you don't need, with money you don't have, to impress people who don't care.
Great idea, so we'll have 6,000 lb flying SUVs driven by distracted, cell phone talking, consumer monkeys, in 3 Dimensions. Then, when they collide trying to run the red light, they'll plummit 2000 feet and crush my house. Great idea.
Damn, should have gone with that 30 year mortgage during the refinancing instead of the 15.
I prefer Karma Escort, thank you very much.