4.1.13 was also released officially and was pretty obviously a production release.
But surprisingly it had completely broken the charset matching in the database. so the queries that mixed utf8/local character sets (that worked before and worked again in 4.1.15) were completely broken, and along with them a nice bunch of applications. I was quite pissed to get a bunch of errors from restoring my database from dumps of the previous version. If they had planned this, they should have added tools to overcome the issue.
People that release broken charset issues in production release should now be out of the blue trusted with things as heavy as transactions ?
I call their transaction system stable when it has been "released by them" for a year and a bunch of users have used it more than a year without major problems. There is a thick thick space of testing & evaluation between production releases and stable releases.
Before that happens you can pretty easilly call it beta, you may trust your php webgallery descriptions into it, but you can't trust your bank records to it or any other kind of financially important data, now can you ?
All enterprise people want databases to be mature products that dont break out of the blue, they want databases to be rock solid. And they can't say that mysql with it's transactions is it right now , period.
I like mysql, i use it every day in some projects, but i wouldn't let it anywhere near my transactions for now.
The good thing for the Japanese: the barrier of entry for cheap Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturer will be high. There will be the need to put in place "secure" production lines , making sure that keys are not leaked and that no clone are produced.
What is the name of your planet ?
There is more than enough money to get that hdtv secrets out, no secret can be kept forever. Everyone that has been around a day or few on this planet knows it and understands it. Iran and North Korea people were never supposed to figure out how to build an nuclear weapon, but look at that Bush face now (it has "we're in deep shit now" written all over it).
Take these pink glasses of and take a good look around mate. HD is just a temporary solution, once it's out, it's useless and will be ripped from every angle on every corner by any geek that can afford a 50$ ripping toy.
Ignoring ID's - not going to work if the hd decoder will be transformed into a pc application (and we all (even you) know that this is going to happen sooner or later).
Sometimes i really feel like there's dozen of people on slashdot who have not been around on this planet longer than 10 minutes.
And it makes absolutely no damn difference if the cable is a analog one or the digital one. All that can be shown, can be ripped. If it comes down to that, people will just buy the cheapest hdtv's that are out there, rip em open and use the chip in them. Not every Joe can do it, but there's certainly a nice bunch of people out there who have the education and the skill to make it work. And it will pay off zillion times to rip off one blue-ray disc, because you can make "all-public-unprotected" copies from it and sell them for greater value in total than the 1 hdtv costed you.
You must be an ignorant fool to think that any hardware based encoding can last long on this damned planet.
Java is so clumsy that, if you are doing something with it, you always start by doing a lot of design before you code.
Come again? You code without software design ? Tell me exactly how do you write C or C++ code without designing, or python code ? (and who let you near a computer in the first place...)
Yeah you can definitely write a 5-line perl hack without designing, but if you write just about anything that is worth a dime, you better plan first and dont fix/patch/alter the stuff afterwards for years. Maybe it's just that i have not had 1-day or 1-week projects for a while, but i usually don't write one line of code on the first day at all. I prefer brainstorming, research and analyzing that will save me a headache and hopefully give me a few extra days at the end of the project to polish stuff.
Java is not slow when code goes into millions of lines, it's the coders who mess it up. I have seen working huge java code, i have written huge working java code which is fast. You are still being fooled around the fact that the swing gui used by java is slow and that java is often used along with oracle that is slow. Don't let this fool you. Java is as fast as C++ in pure arithmetics. If you really need some freaky speed boost, you can write the speedwhore code in C and JNI to it. You can also have your pointer tribble there if you need it, but Java is designed so that it would avoid the need pointers in the first place (all the regular objects in java are actually pointers). Besides, Java is the only thing that will work on almost any platform. And this is what counts in year 2005.
C and C++ are not platform independant and that is what you rarely want to use nowadays. You can never know if your stupid management wants to run this on windows or linux or even sun tomorrow. And once you get your code compatible with all major os's , the source is so #define'd that it's nearly impossible to manage. I won't even start about the library dependancies.
Just use every language where it belongs and don't go around bashing java or anyone else with accusations that can't take 1 mm of water.
Oh well, ok, you can bash php, i have nothing against that.
People who push the "no transactions" FUD also forget that transaction support often reduces the reliability of applications
this really threw me off the chair. come on people, if you mess up 10 rows in different tables along in 1 transaction, you can fix it all with 1 blink of the eye (rollback) if 1 insert/update/delete/whatever fails... where did that reliability just go ? it's the other way around, transactions create reliability, when errors happen, data should not be committed because it disrupts the whole system. imagine that a bank wouldn't have transactions and you transfer 100$ to your mom's account. after it has been discounted from your account, the disk is full and it can't be added to your mom's account. you will lose 100$ and the bank will show you the finger.
The truth is that it's not the end of the world if you mess up a row or two in most databases
Google AdWords definitely is not "most databases", if you create zillion dollar bills for microsoft for advertising excel, you can't mix up this row. actually you can, but microsoft will sue your brains out.
Mysql people that think that messing up some database tables are not a big thing oftect excuse themselves with "to err is human". I'd like to see if you think the same way if your car building factory thought that "to err is human", and forgot to add brakes to your car.
You really don't need to expierence loss caused by ignoring transactions more than once in your life to get your fingers permanently burned.
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I hate it when users of superior databases fud over mysql. But even more do i hate that mysql zombies don't realize how mindless and incompetent their own comments on the issue are.
Sweet tiny mysql has kindof added the features but i have seen no sign "stable" anywhere just yet, so using the latest mysql versions and it's fresh transaction is a bit better than no transactions but it still isnt "it", and you shouldn't trust millions of dollars into it's tables.
If i need performance and can avoid transactions without causing dataloss, i choose mysql for speed, otherwise i choose postgresql which still is superior in it's features but a bit slower in speed.
if i have the discplayer, it obviously has output channels to a tv and to a sound system.
so obviously i can rip it off from these same outputs. they can have all the drm they want, a bit divx encoding in there which loses their mighty "identification" spots that have been under discussion here somewhere, and the movies will again be out on the torrent sites. sure it will lose some quality, but i don't really think that downloaders will mind the drop of quality in such tiny amounts. (now camrips and ts's are loss of quality, a clean cablerip is as good as it can be on your tv). if you have a tv/video card with tv-in port, you're the man and the drm people are wasted.
if you really think that drm works, show me a drm that can't be just cableripped or that hasn't been cracked by software already (oh that dvd region joke never expires i guess...).
any measure they make with 3 years will be hacked with 3 months. any big secret about drm that you trust into taiwan hardware makers (hdtv producers for example) will be out soon enough & counter measured to make the whole investment in drm a total waste. and the saddest thing is that taiwan&china produce massive amount of everyday electronics already and the advanced countries can't afford to cut these out of the production system.
don't the movie/soundmakers really understand that the only bloody way to fight piracy is to lower the prices and make the content affordable ? this is the only thing that will ever decrease the piracy.
fight the bloody problem and not the results it creates.
From my point of view you can all whine all day about the wikipedia
But i think:
a) Wikipedia's idea is great, the process needs a bit polishing but the idea is stil great b) A public FREE book of knowledge is good (i won't call it an encyclopedia...) c) People should stop whining like women and children and produce solutions to problems instead. d) World changes every day, thats why you can't have an accurate encyclopedia ever. e) Wikipedia is the fastest changing book of knowledge available for free. f) Your encyclopedias in your book shelf behind you are hopelessy outdated.
Everybody can whine, better go do something about it. Sit down and try to find a solution for wikipedia where it still could use user data and be accurate at the same time. Go raise funds to create a wikipedia supporter foundation that can keep up 100-200 paid people who will be live moderators for the whole thing and really working for it.
I think it can be done, but not by whining in slashdot.
the details you are enlightening sound secure, but do you think that microsoft's sign check is 100% bulletproof ? on buffer overflow there and all the signed "gang" who have enabled signed scripts will be f-d....
i'm against all extensions. if you can't fit it in html, it's not supposed to be in a browser in the first place...
actually i think that according to the united states patent system, he may infact HAVE the patent on the algorithm that generates the URL's from where to download "updates" to his worms.
using this algorithm without his permission is illegal and also capturing him after using this algorithm in the illegal way is not legal and he must be released from custody... like in the movies:)
and since you can't be charged for 1 crime twice, he will be off the hook... aint life just fun ?
All this is really weird and remind me more of a microsoft anticommercial for firefox than a real issue.
Compared to the "features" of IE, mozilla just crashing on a too long page title is just a sniff. At least it won't let every joe run his code on your machine like the installing exploder does...
I think we'd need a final standard for javascript. i have seen so much damn code duplication over the years because of differences in all kind of browsers, this can drive you mad. Even different versions of 1 browser support so many different things that it's just a mess to track all these down.
if(document.all) {
window.alert("Get a real browser man, IE is a bad choice!");
document.src = "http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/"; } else {
window.alert("Yeah mozilla h4x0r! WTG dude!"); }
Adding canvases and stuff will be cool, but if you still have to duplicate the code, it won't make the web a better place to stay, at least not any time soon (until ie passes out and the latter being confirmed by netcraft).
which word in the clause "never keep unencrypted passwords around since you dont need them" didn't your application authors understand ?
never keep the passwords as plain text fields, if someone hacks your server, gets the password and then abuses the matching password on their bank accounts/(or elsewhere), you will be the dumb lamb that will be sued for letting their secrets out.
encrypt passwords and be safe, an ordinary md5 gives you more than enough for now.
i'd get my ass fired if someone would discover that i even considered saving passwords as plain text.
ps. for the password story itself, on a windows platform which is terrorized by zillion spyware items, i suggest you never change your password, as the spybot authors know it before your disk synchronizes the changes to disk (keyloggers, blah....)
Windows is just product of Microsoft, you seem to forget that they sell office productivity tools (which are not productive), they sell web serving software (which doesnt really serve so well), the sell database software (which is disgarded as non portable solution by clients), they sell embedded stuff for handhelds plus they have zillion things i can't count up here.
Get the big picture: microsoft doesn't want you to buy windows today because they are having this troublecampaign in south korea, they are aiming at the point that you think about microsoft tonight and that you do the same tomorrow when you review this post of yours and you think about when they talk about the news again after 3 months going "oh that's what i commented on slashdot". This is what they want you to do. Not to buy windows or office tools right away, they want you to think about microsoft when you are thinking about computers.
You're going exactly into the hole where microsoft want's you to be. And that is kindof sad.
You try to slash the big fellow with a sword, but he turns it around and makes it a commercial....
ps. for the windows troll above, the fact that 95 people out of 100 use windows, doesn't in any way bend the fact that i have used only linux and sometimes freebsd for the last 5 years. and i dont miss the blue screens, viruses and spyware all that much to turn back any time soon. so everyone doesnt use windows.
I'd love to see how they manage to filter all the content on year 2005/2006, they have to add a massive park of machines for it. And even then they will be unable to do anything about encrypted connections around the internet.
I can't imagine any possible way to do it. Unless they link all the lambs in australia into one massive quantum supermachine...
best sabotage is to be inreplaceable at the moment when you leave... for example if you're the only person around who knows very deep details about an unique framework.
sure they will finally (and they have to) find someone who can do the job. but as it takes a while, none can really ban your accounts or do anything weird like that, beacuse they still need your support about the open issues. if or not you support them is another question, as i will leave my job hopefully under good friendship and conditions, i will give them some support for a while.
that's the state i'm currently in. i'm the only person around that really knows whats going on in our server, now i will have to support it for a while even after i leave (out of loyality, i will do it free for a while as long as it doesn't put any real pressure on me) and i will have to teach someone where to start learning the whole business.
i'm going to switch jobs because my current job doesn't really offer me any real chance to evolve nor any chances to make a longlasting career. i feel like i'm sitting duck on an old framework with old ideas for too long. the rest of the world is moving on and i'm not gonna sit here and wait until i'm an old crappled dude who knows only technologies that are 10 years old.
sitting duck in knowledge & not knowing if you're going to have the job even after 1-2 years is a really bad idea. (would you hire someone that knows msdos, win 3.1 & basic ? i guess not, neither would i.)
i hope my boss has sit down when i'm going to tell him about this (no, he is not going to like it). and i hope he'll be reasonable while discussing my terms of leave. and luckily, i am the bloody administrator, so he can't disable my accoutns without my help anyway...
this is just the cheapest campaign that microsoft can get. advertisement is the proper english word for it.
quite millions of people see news about it on cnn and other tv/news channels, pretty many thousand slashdotters read the article, for 32 millions this is a damn bargain.
and if they lose the appealing case too, its addition just another free commercial which be banging on the big bell of news channels.
write: oh we are in court think: free advertisement & commercials all over the world.
how is working possible in the environment mentioned above ? or do you just hang around the coffe makin' machine ?
in the favour of your mental health, go get a proper job at a proper place.
how impossible can it be to drive network into firewalled subnets and add virus scanners ? plugged in laptops should have read-only access to linux/any-other-*nix based samba servers only, no direct connection to any other windows box in anyway. ah, who can count all that up here.
why did the redmond company that wanted to create windows create backdoors instead ?
isnt it just so common that the most common things are the most common ones used....
anyway, i suggest you forget about php in the first place. ajax will do much better if you have persistance on the server side. so if you're old-school, go java, if you're new and ambitious, try python or the dotnot thingy (i'm just emotionally not able use the latter but i would recommend the 2 first ones).
simplest example ? 2 users type in E with 2 seconds difference, java and python applications can cache this in their own variable for that short amount of time, whereas php will have to fetch it from somewhere (in some cases you can use some horrible shmem solution but it's usage is not fast in any way..., nor comfortable). java and python can share the data across sessions and across threads, something that's just impossible in php.
a) try to get a language that has support for persistant objects and that is fast enough on the serverside b) choose a database that quick in selects and optimize it's configuration. c) write code c.1) optimize your code d) see what went wrong, write code again e) optimize again && profit!
What [DaVinci] does in partnership with MontaVista is enables the Linux developer to use the DSP without needing to understand the complexity of programming the DSP.
they just turned art into crap. if you dont understand what you are doing, you will end up developing ms outlook or inter(pr0n)net explorer. full of new pronish features and exploits.
The car should be black for the rest of the world, and cute yellow for my girlfriend. So she woulnd't mind if i buy it ("cause it's soooo cute"), and i'd still have a solid nice macho black car.
Even better would be if she'd see a small cute renault, whereas i'd see a '67 mustang...
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4.1.13 was also released officially and was pretty obviously a production release.
But surprisingly it had completely broken the charset matching in the database. so the queries that mixed utf8/local character sets (that worked before and worked again in 4.1.15) were completely broken, and along with them a nice bunch of applications. I was quite pissed to get a bunch of errors from restoring my database from dumps of the previous version. If they had planned this, they should have added tools to overcome the issue.
People that release broken charset issues in production release should now be out of the blue trusted with things as heavy as transactions ?
I call their transaction system stable when it has been "released by them" for a year and a bunch of users have used it more than a year without major problems. There is a thick thick space of testing & evaluation between production releases and stable releases.
Before that happens you can pretty easilly call it beta, you may trust your php webgallery descriptions into it, but you can't trust your bank records to it or any other kind of financially important data, now can you ?
All enterprise people want databases to be mature products that dont break out of the blue, they want databases to be rock solid. And they can't say that mysql with it's transactions is it right now , period.
I like mysql, i use it every day in some projects, but i wouldn't let it anywhere near my transactions for now.
The good thing for the Japanese: the barrier of entry for cheap Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturer will be high. There will be the need to put in place "secure" production lines , making sure that keys are not leaked and that no clone are produced.
What is the name of your planet ?
There is more than enough money to get that hdtv secrets out, no secret can be kept forever. Everyone that has been around a day or few on this planet knows it and understands it. Iran and North Korea people were never supposed to figure out how to build an nuclear weapon, but look at that Bush face now (it has "we're in deep shit now" written all over it).
Take these pink glasses of and take a good look around mate. HD is just a temporary solution, once it's out, it's useless and will be ripped from every angle on every corner by any geek that can afford a 50$ ripping toy.
Ignoring ID's - not going to work if the hd decoder will be transformed into a pc application (and we all (even you) know that this is going to happen sooner or later).
Sometimes i really feel like there's dozen of people on slashdot who have not been around on this planet longer than 10 minutes.
And it makes absolutely no damn difference if the cable is a analog one or the digital one. All that can be shown, can be ripped. If it comes down to that, people will just buy the cheapest hdtv's that are out there, rip em open and use the chip in them. Not every Joe can do it, but there's certainly a nice bunch of people out there who have the education and the skill to make it work. And it will pay off zillion times to rip off one blue-ray disc, because you can make "all-public-unprotected" copies from it and sell them for greater value in total than the 1 hdtv costed you.
You must be an ignorant fool to think that any hardware based encoding can last long on this damned planet.
Java is so clumsy that, if you are doing something with it, you always start by doing a lot of design before you code.
Come again? You code without software design ? Tell me exactly how do you write C or C++ code without designing, or python code ? (and who let you near a computer in the first place
Yeah you can definitely write a 5-line perl hack without designing, but if you write just about anything that is worth a dime, you better plan first and dont fix/patch/alter the stuff afterwards for years. Maybe it's just that i have not had 1-day or 1-week projects for a while, but i usually don't write one line of code on the first day at all. I prefer brainstorming, research and analyzing that will save me a headache and hopefully give me a few extra days at the end of the project to polish stuff.
Java is not slow when code goes into millions of lines, it's the coders who mess it up. I have seen working huge java code, i have written huge working java code which is fast. You are still being fooled around the fact that the swing gui used by java is slow and that java is often used along with oracle that is slow. Don't let this fool you. Java is as fast as C++ in pure arithmetics. If you really need some freaky speed boost, you can write the speedwhore code in C and JNI to it. You can also have your pointer tribble there if you need it, but Java is designed so that it would avoid the need pointers in the first place (all the regular objects in java are actually pointers). Besides, Java is the only thing that will work on almost any platform. And this is what counts in year 2005.
C and C++ are not platform independant and that is what you rarely want to use nowadays. You can never know if your stupid management wants to run this on windows or linux or even sun tomorrow. And once you get your code compatible with all major os's , the source is so #define'd that it's nearly impossible to manage. I won't even start about the library dependancies.
Just use every language where it belongs and don't go around bashing java or anyone else with accusations that can't take 1 mm of water.
Oh well, ok, you can bash php, i have nothing against that.
rofl, you got my 5 cents.
... where did that reliability just go ? it's the other way around, transactions create reliability, when errors happen, data should not be committed because it disrupts the whole system. imagine that a bank wouldn't have transactions and you transfer 100$ to your mom's account. after it has been discounted from your account, the disk is full and it can't be added to your mom's account. you will lose 100$ and the bank will show you the finger.
are these people for real ?
People who push the "no transactions" FUD also forget that transaction support often reduces the reliability of applications
this really threw me off the chair. come on people, if you mess up 10 rows in different tables along in 1 transaction, you can fix it all with 1 blink of the eye (rollback) if 1 insert/update/delete/whatever fails
The truth is that it's not the end of the world if you mess up a row or two in most databases
Google AdWords definitely is not "most databases", if you create zillion dollar bills for microsoft for advertising excel, you can't mix up this row. actually you can, but microsoft will sue your brains out.
Mysql people that think that messing up some database tables are not a big thing oftect excuse themselves with "to err is human". I'd like to see if you think the same way if your car building factory thought that "to err is human", and forgot to add brakes to your car.
You really don't need to expierence loss caused by ignoring transactions more than once in your life to get your fingers permanently burned.
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I hate it when users of superior databases fud over mysql. But even more do i hate that mysql zombies don't realize how mindless and incompetent their own comments on the issue are.
Sweet tiny mysql has kindof added the features but i have seen no sign "stable" anywhere just yet, so using the latest mysql versions and it's fresh transaction is a bit better than no transactions but it still isnt "it", and you shouldn't trust millions of dollars into it's tables.
If i need performance and can avoid transactions without causing dataloss, i choose mysql for speed, otherwise i choose postgresql which still is superior in it's features but a bit slower in speed.
what a waste of time.
if i have the discplayer, it obviously has output channels to a tv and to a sound system.
so obviously i can rip it off from these same outputs. they can have all the drm they want, a bit divx encoding in there which loses their mighty "identification" spots that have been under discussion here somewhere, and the movies will again be out on the torrent sites. sure it will lose some quality, but i don't really think that downloaders will mind the drop of quality in such tiny amounts. (now camrips and ts's are loss of quality, a clean cablerip is as good as it can be on your tv). if you have a tv/video card with tv-in port, you're the man and the drm people are wasted.
if you really think that drm works, show me a drm that can't be just cableripped or that hasn't been cracked by software already (oh that dvd region joke never expires i guess...).
any measure they make with 3 years will be hacked with 3 months. any big secret about drm that you trust into taiwan hardware makers (hdtv producers for example) will be out soon enough & counter measured to make the whole investment in drm a total waste. and the saddest thing is that taiwan&china produce massive amount of everyday electronics already and the advanced countries can't afford to cut these out of the production system.
don't the movie/soundmakers really understand that the only bloody way to fight piracy is to lower the prices and make the content affordable ? this is the only thing that will ever decrease the piracy.
fight the bloody problem and not the results it creates.
From my point of view you can all whine all day about the wikipedia
...)
But i think:
a) Wikipedia's idea is great, the process needs a bit polishing but the idea is stil great
b) A public FREE book of knowledge is good (i won't call it an encyclopedia
c) People should stop whining like women and children and produce solutions to problems instead.
d) World changes every day, thats why you can't have an accurate encyclopedia ever.
e) Wikipedia is the fastest changing book of knowledge available for free.
f) Your encyclopedias in your book shelf behind you are hopelessy outdated.
Everybody can whine, better go do something about it. Sit down and try to find a solution for wikipedia where it still could use user data and be accurate at the same time. Go raise funds to create a wikipedia supporter foundation that can keep up 100-200 paid people who will be live moderators for the whole thing and really working for it.
I think it can be done, but not by whining in slashdot.
Nah, RMS doesn't give a damn really, he just wrote that along the way when he started his Vim and wanted to work as usual ...
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Yes i have the vi vs emacs t-shirt, and not the other way around
keep these rollbacks for a sec, i need to auction some "stuff" on ebay at first ...
new microsoft release, new exploits to sell , woohoooo
the details you are enlightening sound secure, but do you think that microsoft's sign check is 100% bulletproof ? on buffer overflow there and all the signed "gang" who have enabled signed scripts will be f-d ....
...
i'm against all extensions. if you can't fit it in html, it's not supposed to be in a browser in the first place
yep, i use ff
actually i think that according to the united states patent system, he may infact HAVE the patent on the algorithm that generates the URL's from where to download "updates" to his worms.
... like in the movies :)
... aint life just fun ?
using this algorithm without his permission is illegal and also capturing him after using this algorithm in the illegal way is not legal and he must be released from custody
and since you can't be charged for 1 crime twice, he will be off the hook
Hmm ...
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All this is really weird and remind me more of a microsoft anticommercial for firefox than a real issue.
Compared to the "features" of IE, mozilla just crashing on a too long page title is just a sniff. At least it won't let every joe run his code on your machine like the installing exploder does
which word in the clause "never keep unencrypted passwords around since you dont need them" didn't your application authors understand ?
....)
never keep the passwords as plain text fields, if someone hacks your server, gets the password and then abuses the matching password on their bank accounts/(or elsewhere), you will be the dumb lamb that will be sued for letting their secrets out.
encrypt passwords and be safe, an ordinary md5 gives you more than enough for now.
i'd get my ass fired if someone would discover that i even considered saving passwords as plain text.
ps. for the password story itself, on a windows platform which is terrorized by zillion spyware items, i suggest you never change your password, as the spybot authors know it before your disk synchronizes the changes to disk (keyloggers, blah
Windows is just product of Microsoft, you seem to forget that they sell office productivity tools (which are not productive), they sell web serving software (which doesnt really serve so well), the sell database software (which is disgarded as non portable solution by clients), they sell embedded stuff for handhelds plus they have zillion things i can't count up here.
....
Get the big picture: microsoft doesn't want you to buy windows today because they are having this troublecampaign in south korea, they are aiming at the point that you think about microsoft tonight and that you do the same tomorrow when you review this post of yours and you think about when they talk about the news again after 3 months going "oh that's what i commented on slashdot". This is what they want you to do. Not to buy windows or office tools right away, they want you to think about microsoft when you are thinking about computers.
You're going exactly into the hole where microsoft want's you to be. And that is kindof sad.
You try to slash the big fellow with a sword, but he turns it around and makes it a commercial
ps. for the windows troll above, the fact that 95 people out of 100 use windows, doesn't in any way bend the fact that i have used only linux and sometimes freebsd for the last 5 years. and i dont miss the blue screens, viruses and spyware all that much to turn back any time soon. so everyone doesnt use windows.
I'd love to see how they manage to filter all the content on year 2005/2006, they have to add a massive park of machines for it. And even then they will be unable to do anything about encrypted connections around the internet.
...
I can't imagine any possible way to do it. Unless they link all the lambs in australia into one massive quantum supermachine
Do you also gets 'payed' for using resources like that for writing these articles ?
... reminds me of gossips about dental care from the other side hole of the "pipeline" ...
"The cranky user: Macro viruses" (developerWorks, August 2002) explains the modeline option in early versions of the UNIX editor vi.
Now that's real nice stuff that you are reading there
best sabotage is to be inreplaceable at the moment when you leave... for example if you're the only person around who knows very deep details about an unique framework.
...
sure they will finally (and they have to) find someone who can do the job. but as it takes a while, none can really ban your accounts or do anything weird like that, beacuse they still need your support about the open issues. if or not you support them is another question, as i will leave my job hopefully under good friendship and conditions, i will give them some support for a while.
that's the state i'm currently in. i'm the only person around that really knows whats going on in our server, now i will have to support it for a while even after i leave (out of loyality, i will do it free for a while as long as it doesn't put any real pressure on me) and i will have to teach someone where to start learning the whole business.
i'm going to switch jobs because my current job doesn't really offer me any real chance to evolve nor any chances to make a longlasting career. i feel like i'm sitting duck on an old framework with old ideas for too long. the rest of the world is moving on and i'm not gonna sit here and wait until i'm an old crappled dude who knows only technologies that are 10 years old.
sitting duck in knowledge & not knowing if you're going to have the job even after 1-2 years is a really bad idea. (would you hire someone that knows msdos, win 3.1 & basic ? i guess not, neither would i.)
i hope my boss has sit down when i'm going to tell him about this (no, he is not going to like it). and i hope he'll be reasonable while discussing my terms of leave. and luckily, i am the bloody administrator, so he can't disable my accoutns without my help anyway
starting to think ???
this is just the cheapest campaign that microsoft can get. advertisement is the proper english word for it.
quite millions of people see news about it on cnn and other tv/news channels, pretty many thousand slashdotters read the article, for 32 millions this is a damn bargain.
and if they lose the appealing case too, its addition just another free commercial which be banging on the big bell of news channels.
write: oh we are in court
think: free advertisement & commercials all over the world.
"I work as a software engineer
how is working possible in the environment mentioned above ? or do you just hang around the coffe makin' machine ?
in the favour of your mental health, go get a proper job at a proper place.
how impossible can it be to drive network into firewalled subnets and add virus scanners ? plugged in laptops should have read-only access to linux/any-other-*nix based samba servers only, no direct connection to any other windows box in anyway. ah, who can count all that up here.
isnt it just so common that the most common things are the most common ones used
anyway, i suggest you forget about php in the first place. ajax will do much better if you have persistance on the server side. so if you're old-school, go java, if you're new and ambitious, try python or the dotnot thingy (i'm just emotionally not able use the latter but i would recommend the 2 first ones).
simplest example ? 2 users type in E with 2 seconds difference, java and python applications can cache this in their own variable for that short amount of time, whereas php will have to fetch it from somewhere (in some cases you can use some horrible shmem solution but it's usage is not fast in any way..., nor comfortable). java and python can share the data across sessions and across threads, something that's just impossible in php.
a) try to get a language that has support for persistant objects and that is fast enough on the serverside
b) choose a database that quick in selects and optimize it's configuration.
c) write code
c.1) optimize your code
d) see what went wrong, write code again
e) optimize again && profit!
from tfa:
What [DaVinci] does in partnership with MontaVista is enables the Linux developer to use the DSP without needing to understand the complexity of programming the DSP.
they just turned art into crap. if you dont understand what you are doing, you will end up developing ms outlook or inter(pr0n)net explorer. full of new pronish features and exploits.
while your at it, please try to explain to people at the airport why they have to go through a swarm of wasps before entering the airplane ....
now guess how many of these are faked ?
if you want to fire a worker at a shop, this is the easiest thing to fake and to prove infront of colleagues.
Who gives a [censored] about the temperature ?
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The car should be black for the rest of the world, and cute yellow for my girlfriend. So she woulnd't mind if i buy it ("cause it's soooo cute"), and i'd still have a solid nice macho black car.
Even better would be if she'd see a small cute renault, whereas i'd see a '67 mustang