I wouldn't doubt they cancel the march 31st release date and make a joke on april 1st saying the proyect can't recover and it'll shut down... then they'll release it on march 2nd or something.
Well, now Microsoft plans to have a Windows machine automagically download and patch itself.
I dont know if somebody has already talked about this... but when (and if) windows starts doing that what stops the hackers from finding an exploit and then editing the HOSTS files so the victim will never reach the windowsupdate server or locates a malicious server that offers more exploits instead of patches... unless microsoft hardcodes the IPs, that is.
I used it once, it works as desired with directories... i doubt it works with arguments but also works with other kinds of files for example tar can autocomplete to.tar files, it's easy to configure.
I thank that cycle... if that wouldn't happend we'd be stuck with a crappy UI from the 1980s
Bloated UI's are not that bad, if you want to stick with old harware... you might as well stick with old software, I for one like innovation (don't flame, I know there hasn't really been much innovation in some time).
I like changes, using the same interface all the time is boring as hell, and what's wrong with software taking advantage of the hardware... hardware is not improving just to be left aside, you know? when I buy a new 3d graphics card to play games... i'd love to have other things using those capabilities too, why would I want a old and hyperfast interface (so fast I cant notice the difference between fast and slow) if I can have a fast interface with cool effects and stuff, and by the way... I never buy the latest hardware, and that's enough for me, the speed is good, the power is nice, the capabilities are perfect.
Windows is not the only environment going that way, by the way... KDE and GNOME are just as good/bad (pick whichever you want), and beeing bloated is a feature.
Don't take me wrong... I use Linux, and love it, I hate M$ and stuff, but sorry I'm not going to bash Windows this time, the problem is not windows... all the interfaces are the same, we need something different, fast... nice effects and stuff might lead the interfaces to new approaches and new styles, now that's something I want to see.
Their point is that when they patch they announce they HAD a problem and the hackers can see what the patch fixed and try to exploit UNpatched machines... its security through obscurity, if I don't release a patch... hopefully the hackers won't notice the hole.
But now that the patch is out, you can expect hackers to know about the vulnerability and attack you if you don't have the patch.
I've been bearding my shave with electric shavers for years and I can say that's just b*llshit.
I am successful programmer, I do a lot of math and taking a hot shower really relaxes me 'cause a bubble baths are great so I jog at the park every morning right after the delicious dinner my wife makes for me, the time I save shaving my beard I think I need to get a job cause I've been unemployed for months and since then I got divorced.
yeah, it's pretty simple to install things on windows... but uninstalling them is a pain, each app uses a unique uninstaller, which doesnt even uninstall everything most of the time, you dont always know what's beeing installed and whether it has modules (other packages) or not, stuff like that.
A package management system is so the admin can easily manage the packages, not just install them, but review them, upgrade them and stuff... windows apps are getting kind of bloated, each app has its own upgrade system, when the package manager could do the job.
I'm not a windows fan, in fact, i rarely ever use windows... but I think the world is overreacting, microsoft designed his own product... the world likes it... the world uses it, and now the world tells microsoft what it should do and what it shouldn't do?
If you don't like how windows works, don't use it, i think most monopolistic charges against windows are not fair, I love it that they are getting them, though.
If I build a building, a great building, and let everybody live in it, for a price, of course (although there are people who manage to live there for free)... and suddenly all i get is "the doors dont match with my chairs, change them" I'd get mad.
It's just another point of view, and by no means I support microsoft.
I Just wanted to try to be neutral.
oh, yeah, mod me down for not bashing microsoft, I dont care.
I bet you were the anonymous coward that submitted the story, and then you posted this comment to try to fool us... well... you certainly didn't fool me!:) just kidding
Each language has its own words, mixing languages is usually not a good practice, although it is common, I live in mexico and every day we use more and more english words, that doesn't mean it is good to use them, almost everybody understands them, but if we can use the real word instead of foreign alternatives, we're preserving our language.
Sure, I know of a lot of people that think they are smart 'cause they use foreign words, but they don't even speak that language.
Anyway I'd love to finish this with an unexpected twist.. this is the way I think... if other people have another way of thinking, it's ok, it's all relative, every head is a world, stop fighting, if somebody likes to use a word or likes to talk some way, that's what makes us all different, it's totally ok.
This comment is not meant to be targetted to the parent post, but to everybody who keeps trying to make everybody speak the same way as they do, stop that, it's a lot more annoying when somebody tries to change you than just reading a different way to say something.
As others have pointed out, if you dont use the accents, why would you want to visit a foreign language page? if you happend to like the language you can find the way to type the characters... besides, there is always a way to use google to locate the page and click on the link or something like that, you dont have to be so closed minded, not just because you dont find it usesful, everybody will see it the same way as you do...
Just as the moderator guideline says "focus on promoting instead of modding down", the same applies, focus on the things you like and ignore those that dont mean a thing.
If I happend to see a slashdot post about war and I couldnt give a f*ck less, I would certainly just avoid looking inside, it's obvious I'm going to get irritated with the comments inside, but that doesnt mean they are wrong...
By the way, I'm not trolling or beeing agressive... I just express my point of view. =)
I havent checked the article or whatsoever, but based on what I've readen here... its a PDF with a black image over the text, right?
if that's so, why not put a fake document image with some missleading text that make everybody think that's the real content of the document, avoiding smart hackers' suspicion.
I might just be wrong anyway. sorry.
don't flame... I'm just a regular slashdot observer.
Seriously folks, it's about time WindowMaker merges back with AfterStep. Dividing the great AS WM is the sole reason why KDE and GNOME dominate at this point.
Sorry, I'd rather have a bad ass WM, in my case.. sawfish.
When it stops beeing turn based it stops beeing a roguelike game...
I guess the solution would be making each turn 1 or 2 seconds long, if you dont do anything in two seconds it is considered waiting, otherwise the action is performed, and there might be actions that take the entire turn or actions that let you perform some other quick actions in the same turn (neverwinter nights comes to mind, they do have the same roots, right? I'm not actually sure, so correct me if I'm wrong)
The thing I never liked about FFVIII is that the whole point of the game is to avoid leveling up, that is, winning fights... just follow the trick of draw,draw,draw... and escape until you are 50 times stronger than any normal enemy and 20 times stronger than any boss. That kind of took away the thrill of having to win some battles to be able to take on some tough boss. I didn't like running away all the time, but that's the way the game wanted you to play since.. every experience point you get, is an experience point the enemies get, that's lame.
FFI, a classic, but not oh so great, but still love it. FFII, really annoying.. too cheatable (hit your own party to grow your HP, for example) FFIII, Great! I love class switching. FFVI, nice, but I don't really like beeing stuck with the same classes. FFV. awesome! the best SNES FF game, lots of different classes and combinations. FFVI, this one is another classic, it's incredible you can role play your characters via status raising espers, that's nice. FFVII was really cool, nice ability system, I'd love to be able to be able to do more combos like slots connected to 2 or more other slots. FFVIII, already talked about that, this one is bad! buy I enjoyed it, though. FFIX... really nice, learning abilities when using weapons is nice, but it isn't really customizable. FFX... now this one is amazing in high levels, the battle arena rules... you can grow your chars to demigod by fighting really though monsters. I still have to play the others:)
for one, debian is really good, provides lots of precompiled packages, and a set of options, whether you want to go for stable (AKA old), development or bleeding edge software. I use the bleeding edge branch and it's not unstable at all, it's pretty good, it does automatic dependency checks to install packages and downloads/installs the needed packages.
On the other hand, there is gentoo, which is basically the same in terms of ease of installing new apps/stuff but with the added value that it compiles everything from source, I bet you'd like that.
Don't trash linux, just looking at redhat, linux is not redhat.
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I wouldn't doubt they cancel the march 31st release date and make a joke on april 1st saying the proyect can't recover and it'll shut down... then they'll release it on march 2nd or something.
Well, now Microsoft plans to have a Windows machine automagically download and patch itself.
... but when (and if) windows starts doing that what stops the hackers from finding an exploit and then editing the HOSTS files so the victim will never reach the windowsupdate server or locates a malicious server that offers more exploits instead of patches... unless microsoft hardcodes the IPs, that is.
I dont know if somebody has already talked about this
5. profit!!!!!
sorry couldn't help it
bash already has autocompletion :)
.tar files, it's easy to configure.
http://www.caliban.org/bash/#completion
I used it once, it works as desired with directories... i doubt it works with arguments but also works with other kinds of files for example tar can autocomplete to
You should give it a try.
I thank that cycle... if that wouldn't happend we'd be stuck with a crappy UI from the 1980s
Bloated UI's are not that bad, if you want to stick with old harware... you might as well stick with old software, I for one like innovation (don't flame, I know there hasn't really been much innovation in some time).
I like changes, using the same interface all the time is boring as hell, and what's wrong with software taking advantage of the hardware... hardware is not improving just to be left aside, you know? when I buy a new 3d graphics card to play games... i'd love to have other things using those capabilities too, why would I want a old and hyperfast interface (so fast I cant notice the difference between fast and slow) if I can have a fast interface with cool effects and stuff, and by the way... I never buy the latest hardware, and that's enough for me, the speed is good, the power is nice, the capabilities are perfect.
Windows is not the only environment going that way, by the way... KDE and GNOME are just as good/bad (pick whichever you want), and beeing bloated is a feature.
Don't take me wrong... I use Linux, and love it, I hate M$ and stuff, but sorry I'm not going to bash Windows this time, the problem is not windows... all the interfaces are the same, we need something different, fast... nice effects and stuff might lead the interfaces to new approaches and new styles, now that's something I want to see.
Mod me down for not bashing M$, I don't care.
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Their point is that when they patch they announce they HAD a problem and the hackers can see what the patch fixed and try to exploit UNpatched machines... its security through obscurity, if I don't release a patch... hopefully the hackers won't notice the hole.
:)
But now that the patch is out, you can expect hackers to know about the vulnerability and attack you if you don't have the patch.
They are dumb, dont try to play dumber.
I've been bearding my shave with electric shavers for years and I can say that's just b*llshit.
I am successful programmer, I do a lot of math and taking a hot shower really relaxes me 'cause a bubble baths are great so I jog at the park every morning right after the delicious dinner my wife makes for me, the time I save shaving my beard I think I need to get a job cause I've been unemployed for months and since then I got divorced.
yeah, it's pretty simple to install things on windows... but uninstalling them is a pain, each app uses a unique uninstaller, which doesnt even uninstall everything most of the time, you dont always know what's beeing installed and whether it has modules (other packages) or not, stuff like that.
A package management system is so the admin can easily manage the packages, not just install them, but review them, upgrade them and stuff... windows apps are getting kind of bloated, each app has its own upgrade system, when the package manager could do the job.
sorry.
I bet this article is going to rise a lot of flames... come on.. javascript... slashdot? yeah sure...
document.write("First Post");
That's it, I'm patenting the process of patenting something to sue somebody, and I'll be sueing whoever tryies to break that.
I'm not a windows fan, in fact, i rarely ever use windows... but I think the world is overreacting, microsoft designed his own product... the world likes it... the world uses it, and now the world tells microsoft what it should do and what it shouldn't do?
If you don't like how windows works, don't use it, i think most monopolistic charges against windows are not fair, I love it that they are getting them, though.
If I build a building, a great building, and let everybody live in it, for a price, of course (although there are people who manage to live there for free)... and suddenly all i get is "the doors dont match with my chairs, change them" I'd get mad.
It's just another point of view, and by no means I support microsoft.
I Just wanted to try to be neutral.
oh, yeah, mod me down for not bashing microsoft, I dont care.
I bet you were the anonymous coward that submitted the story, and then you posted this comment to try to fool us... well... you certainly didn't fool me! :) just kidding
nice job.
why dont we store the year in a separate integer?
struct date {
char str[11];
int year;
}
str would contain "MMddhhmmss" and the year is stored in a big enough memory space, it might be slower and harder to use, but it's a solution.
just a thought.
not to be pedantic... but...
1K equals 1000
1Ki equals 1024
I'm definetely with you. It's not that dificult learning good typin abits, anyway.
Bad typing is like virii, did you no?
Recent market analysis have found out that the word virii is the word that take the most mod points out of moderators.
=)
peace out!
Each language has its own words, mixing languages is usually not a good practice, although it is common, I live in mexico and every day we use more and more english words, that doesn't mean it is good to use them, almost everybody understands them, but if we can use the real word instead of foreign alternatives, we're preserving our language.
Sure, I know of a lot of people that think they are smart 'cause they use foreign words, but they don't even speak that language.
Anyway I'd love to finish this with an unexpected twist.. this is the way I think... if other people have another way of thinking, it's ok, it's all relative, every head is a world, stop fighting, if somebody likes to use a word or likes to talk some way, that's what makes us all different, it's totally ok.
This comment is not meant to be targetted to the parent post, but to everybody who keeps trying to make everybody speak the same way as they do, stop that, it's a lot more annoying when somebody tries to change you than just reading a different way to say something.
peace up!
As others have pointed out, if you dont use the accents, why would you want to visit a foreign language page? if you happend to like the language you can find the way to type the characters... besides, there is always a way to use google to locate the page and click on the link or something like that, you dont have to be so closed minded, not just because you dont find it usesful, everybody will see it the same way as you do...
Just as the moderator guideline says "focus on promoting instead of modding down", the same applies, focus on the things you like and ignore those that dont mean a thing.
If I happend to see a slashdot post about war and I couldnt give a f*ck less, I would certainly just avoid looking inside, it's obvious I'm going to get irritated with the comments inside, but that doesnt mean they are wrong...
By the way, I'm not trolling or beeing agressive... I just express my point of view. =)
I havent checked the article or whatsoever, but based on what I've readen here... its a PDF with a black image over the text, right?
if that's so, why not put a fake document image with some missleading text that make everybody think that's the real content of the document, avoiding smart hackers' suspicion.
I might just be wrong anyway. sorry.
don't flame... I'm just a regular slashdot observer.
Seriously folks, it's about time WindowMaker merges back with AfterStep. Dividing the great AS WM is the sole reason why KDE and GNOME dominate at this point.
Sorry, I'd rather have a bad ass WM, in my case.. sawfish.
When it stops beeing turn based it stops beeing a roguelike game...
I guess the solution would be making each turn 1 or 2 seconds long, if you dont do anything in two seconds it is considered waiting, otherwise the action is performed, and there might be actions that take the entire turn or actions that let you perform some other quick actions in the same turn (neverwinter nights comes to mind, they do have the same roots, right? I'm not actually sure, so correct me if I'm wrong)
Here you have yet another way to do it. :%s/^M//g
:set ff=unix
^M is the control character, to get it, press Control+V and then Control+M.
You can also try converting to unix filetype
The thing I never liked about FFVIII is that the whole point of the game is to avoid leveling up, that is, winning fights... just follow the trick of draw,draw,draw... and escape until you are 50 times stronger than any normal enemy and 20 times stronger than any boss. That kind of took away the thrill of having to win some battles to be able to take on some tough boss. I didn't like running away all the time, but that's the way the game wanted you to play since.. every experience point you get, is an experience point the enemies get, that's lame.
:)
FFI, a classic, but not oh so great, but still love it.
FFII, really annoying.. too cheatable (hit your own party to grow your HP, for example)
FFIII, Great! I love class switching.
FFVI, nice, but I don't really like beeing stuck with the same classes.
FFV. awesome! the best SNES FF game, lots of different classes and combinations.
FFVI, this one is another classic, it's incredible you can role play your characters via status raising espers, that's nice.
FFVII was really cool, nice ability system, I'd love to be able to be able to do more combos like slots connected to 2 or more other slots.
FFVIII, already talked about that, this one is bad! buy I enjoyed it, though.
FFIX... really nice, learning abilities when using weapons is nice, but it isn't really customizable.
FFX... now this one is amazing in high levels, the battle arena rules... you can grow your chars to demigod by fighting really though monsters.
I still have to play the others
RedHat is not the only linux distro around.
for one, debian is really good, provides lots of precompiled packages,
and a set of options, whether you want to go for stable (AKA old), development or bleeding edge software. I use the bleeding edge branch and it's not unstable at all, it's pretty good, it does automatic dependency checks to install packages and downloads/installs the needed packages.
On the other hand, there is gentoo, which is basically the same in terms of ease of installing new apps/stuff but with the added value that it compiles everything from source, I bet you'd like that.
Don't trash linux, just looking at redhat, linux is not redhat.