Even with addon that tries to resemble the old behavior(Old Location Bar), I hate the way firefox 3 handles it.
You need 2 extensions to get some sanity back. 1. You already know about oldbar 2. You need an extension called hideunvisited - it stops the location bar showing things that aren't in your history but are in your bookmarks.
I always looked like a innocent bystander on purpose..
Once when asked by a cop why I was holding a sign I said, "some cute chick over there gave it to me, I dont want to drop it and litter" He took the sign as a favor to me.
So your saying, that you dont want to stand up to your beliefs? So why even do it?
So anyone that can get through an MBA program at 6 years should be able to charge about what a lawyer does?
I don't think you understand. A lawyer almost always sells his soul to the devil. However the devil doesn't pay. He says "go extract it from those schmucks in trouble over there". That's you! Souls ain't cheap.
A 747 can't cruise on 2 engines - it needs at least 3 (depending on which two are left it probably could hobble back to a controlled landing after quickly dumping fuel - more of a powered glide than flight). So, a double engine failure on a 747 isn't really much better than a double engine failure on a 777.
Woah. You've built your argument on the premis that 2/4 engines gone and a slow descent is the same as 2/2 engines gone and a glide. There haven't been that many airliners that have been able to land with no power. The Gimli glider's the most famous example. It does depend on your altitude, distance to nearest airfield and altitude of that airfield, as well as weather, but I can tell you I'd rather be in a 747 on 2 engines than a 777 on none.
Consider that to some even chess champions who make it be and become rich and famous are just game playing kids. (I'm reminded of the teacher in Searching For Bobby Fischer). It's not realistic to expect people who won't take an intellectual game like chess seriously where becoming good at Grandmaster level requires serious study to suddenly take game developers (and professional game players for that matter) seriously. It would take a massive cultural shift in multiple cultures and countries for that to change.
Best to just nod, smile and cash your pay cheque. The rest of us do the same, but we don't get to be as creative or have as much fun with our creation.
It doesn't matter what you do after the fact to secure your web sites, if your scripting is full of holes, trying to plug them up after the fact isn't going to work. For example, you mention MySQL so I gather your code accesses one or more databases? If so do you know what a SQL injection bug is and have you reviewed your code for them? Nothing you do at the point of deployment is going to help fix a SQL injection bug.
I'm afraid that if you're using MySQL and PHP you've moved from the realm of the very basic to something more advanced. You're no longer just talking about slapping static content on the web. People spend years learning how to do these things really well. You should find yourself a good book and get started. Start with a Google. It costs nothing. If you have friends who do web development with similar tools talk to them and see if they'll help point you in the right direction.
Here are some things to get you started. Note that these are language independent things you should do no matter what dev tools you use. You might want to look at something more targetted for PHP as well.
You call them useless but they just forced you to consider a more expensive version of Windows. Selling garbage people don't need to them is called marketing.
Case in point, if you visit their forums, starting about 6 months ago, around the time of release of v6, the forum administrators now delete anything "critical" of TrueCrypt. Basically, your only allowed to discuss the positives of the software, or problems with the intended operation of it. Any "bugs" or "weaknesses" mentioned result in having the thread either locked, more than likely deleted, and if you push an issue, open a second thread on a 'deleted thread' your likely to have your account locked.
Find a related usenet forum or start one (though I understand that's difficult these days). It's unmoderated, and you since you have no control over what others say you can't easily be held accountable for their actions. Expect lots of trolls though.
6.1a won't even install on my Inspiron 9400, giving me a "memory parity error" on the initial reboot test for full drive encryption.
Have you run memtest86+ and let it go for at least two full tests? Could be one of your sticks is bad.
I don't think you understand how bad the Inspiron 9400 is. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love mine when it's working right but...
1) I'm on my 3rd hard disk. Never lost a laptop hard disk on a previous machine
2) I've had NMI parity errors that appear to be either hardware related (video card overheating) or driver related (that was the fix for me - replaced video and wireless drivers). There may be multiple causes. The following thread is now on it's 68th page (not a typo). I have since seen one NMI error but that's in about 6 months whereas with other drivers they happened daily.
3) I had an issue with a non-paged memory pool leak that took some weeks to track down and was causing it to slowly leak memory until the pool was exhausted and the laptop blue screened (usually if it's been running for 24 hours, with or without hibernation in between). What fixed it? A reset of the bios. Something I considered a last resort before re-sinstalling the OS having exhausted windows debugging tools to track down a process. Unbelievable.
Oh and memtest, prime95, HD Tune (SMART) and Dell's own diagnostics report no errors.
My advice: If you've got an Inspiron 9400 working right, leave the OS alone and stick to installing or uninstalling apps. This has been a cheap laptop until you consider the amount of time I've spent on it!
Hopefully Perens' guide can be read by more company execs -- resulting in fewer lawsuits going forward (but we're not holding our breath)
Until the risk of being sued for a significant amount of money is more statistically likely than being struck by lightning and a meteorite at the same moment, no exec is going to waste their time. In fact unless you start personally suing CEOs I bet they have more important things to spend their time on.
It is not the exec that should be reading this in any case. It's the project manager or section/department head that takes care of this detail. A CEO and/or legal department and/or risk management group (depending on the size of the company) should enforce that this aspect of the project be considered.
I have had to make huge compromises to accuracy to obtain the desired performance.
I watched your video and I don't get it. Exactly what compromises have you made? If you're talking about rough or heuristic scaling of fonts that's not the same as compromising accuracy on a processor. You're not going to pull up the calendar for the 14th when you click the 15th for instance.
This is *less* dangerous than if he were talking about Bubonic Plague and released lab mice - the mice would chew on wiring.
Really? Someone stands in front of me, rambles about malaria and releases mosquitos and I'm going to be pretty alarmed even if I'm reassured they're not infectious. Anyone in the audience have a heart condition?
Attendees are pissed? So wtf? Just a (fake) taste of reality is enough to get the attendees pissed eh?
He did people (minor) harm, without their permission and to make a point. He had no right whatsoever to do that. He is one of the richest men on the planet and lives on of the most luxurious lives you could imagine.
What he did was perfectly fine, even if a bit sensationalist. He made a point.
So if tomorrow he comes over, and tortures and kills your family to make the point that this happens in 3rd world countries, you're fine with that too?
Sure he didn't do anyone anywhere near that amount of harm but the principle stands. You can't hurt people just to make a point.
Or, an alternate way to look at it is that he's trying to remind the wealthy that just sitting still and letting poor rot instead of trying to help raise them up isn't a good thing.
Bill Gates releases a mossie swarm and he's hailed a a genius and philanthropist. If I did the same I'd probably be arrested on bio-terrorism charges if the powers that be were being hysterical, or if they were being more reasonable public endangerment and or nusance. At worst I'd be throwing my life away and at best I could expect to be doing community service and excluding myself from getting a job in my profession ever again. The irony of trying to demonstrate that we need to think of everyone by engaging in an act that shows how privelleged he is (as he won't be prosecuted) is wonderful. Typical arrogance.
He had no right to do this. How about one of the people bitten by mossies go to his house and release a whole infestation of fleas, or cockroaches and see how he likes it.
You do not get people to listen to your point of view by doing harm, even if it's just releasing a mossie plague. If that worked you could justify going around to someone's house and beat them into compliance. Bill Gates might get attention due to a publicity stunt but I sure as well won't listen to him or respect him if he's demonstrating he's an arrogant twit.
Second two are plausible, but what 16-bit app exists that wouldn't run at an acceptable speed under emulation on even a low-end 64-bit machine?
There are 32 bit apps with 16 bit installers, where emulation is not a good solution. Very few users are going to bother running VMware or the like for a few apps. Effectively going to a 64 bit version means giving up your 16 bit apps unless you're willing to put up with the pain of managing a virtual OS.
3. Stable kernel ABI would actually be harmful for Linux, because manufacturers wouldn't be as willing to release open-source drivers. Right now they do mainly because it takes considerable manpower to maintain a closed-source driver.
That is some FUCKED UP logic right there. We have to make it unstable and change it for no reason other than stability might mean someone might close their source. Fuck it if the price of freedom is having apps that don't run in 3 years keep your free OS. This is the kind of mentality that fucks up FOSS everywhere!
Not that I would even try. Who wouldn't install 64bit at this point in time anyways? What's the benefit to not installing 64bit?
Anyone who
- Has an app that is partly or fully written in 16 bit and still wants to run it. - Has hardware for which there is no 64 bit driver and still wishes to be able to use it. - Has less than about 3GB of RAM on the machine. 64 bit addressing also means that for 64 bit code and data, twice as much memory is used.
A new videocard + fully up to date DirectX/drivers is the best way to get okay framerates if you really want to do this rather than dual-booting.
There are PLENTY of people on that link with better cards and plenty more complaints.
Why on Earth wouldn't you want to dual boot for a game? It's not like you'll be writing a word document and checking your email while playing a FPS or simulator.
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Even with addon that tries to resemble the old behavior(Old Location Bar), I hate the way firefox 3 handles it.
You need 2 extensions to get some sanity back.
1. You already know about oldbar
2. You need an extension called hideunvisited - it stops the location bar showing things that aren't in your history but are in your bookmarks.
The Firefox devs have lost the plot.
I always looked like a innocent bystander on purpose..
Once when asked by a cop why I was holding a sign I said, "some cute chick over there gave it to me, I dont want to drop it and litter" He took the sign as a favor to me.
So your saying, that you dont want to stand up to your beliefs? So why even do it?
For the imaginary cute chick.
So anyone that can get through an MBA program at 6 years should be able to charge about what a lawyer does?
I don't think you understand. A lawyer almost always sells his soul to the devil. However the devil doesn't pay. He says "go extract it from those schmucks in trouble over there". That's you! Souls ain't cheap.
A 747 can't cruise on 2 engines - it needs at least 3 (depending on which two are left it probably could hobble back to a controlled landing after quickly dumping fuel - more of a powered glide than flight). So, a double engine failure on a 747 isn't really much better than a double engine failure on a 777.
Woah. You've built your argument on the premis that 2/4 engines gone and a slow descent is the same as 2/2 engines gone and a glide. There haven't been that many airliners that have been able to land with no power. The Gimli glider's the most famous example. It does depend on your altitude, distance to nearest airfield and altitude of that airfield, as well as weather, but I can tell you I'd rather be in a 747 on 2 engines than a 777 on none.
Consider that to some even chess champions who make it be and become rich and famous are just game playing kids. (I'm reminded of the teacher in Searching For Bobby Fischer). It's not realistic to expect people who won't take an intellectual game like chess seriously where becoming good at Grandmaster level requires serious study to suddenly take game developers (and professional game players for that matter) seriously. It would take a massive cultural shift in multiple cultures and countries for that to change.
Best to just nod, smile and cash your pay cheque. The rest of us do the same, but we don't get to be as creative or have as much fun with our creation.
It doesn't matter what you do after the fact to secure your web sites, if your scripting is full of holes, trying to plug them up after the fact isn't going to work. For example, you mention MySQL so I gather your code accesses one or more databases? If so do you know what a SQL injection bug is and have you reviewed your code for them? Nothing you do at the point of deployment is going to help fix a SQL injection bug.
I'm afraid that if you're using MySQL and PHP you've moved from the realm of the very basic to something more advanced. You're no longer just talking about slapping static content on the web. People spend years learning how to do these things really well. You should find yourself a good book and get started. Start with a Google. It costs nothing. If you have friends who do web development with similar tools talk to them and see if they'll help point you in the right direction.
Here are some things to get you started. Note that these are language independent things you should do no matter what dev tools you use. You might want to look at something more targetted for PHP as well.
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/Top+10+Secure+Coding+Practices
Here's the main site.
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/CERT+Secure+Coding+Standards
The other way to go would be to make your web files more static. However getting rid of everything dynamic may not be a reasonable option in 2009.
I do a lot of ballroom dance, and it's a pretty common occupation for engineers to be fantastic at.
I first read "bathroom" instead of "ballroom" and your post was much funnier that way.
You call them useless but they just forced you to consider a more expensive version of Windows. Selling garbage people don't need to them is called marketing.
Case in point, if you visit their forums, starting about 6 months ago, around the time of release of v6, the forum administrators now delete anything "critical" of TrueCrypt. Basically, your only allowed to discuss the positives of the software, or problems with the intended operation of it. Any "bugs" or "weaknesses" mentioned result in having the thread either locked, more than likely deleted, and if you push an issue, open a second thread on a 'deleted thread' your likely to have your account locked.
Find a related usenet forum or start one (though I understand that's difficult these days). It's unmoderated, and you since you have no control over what others say you can't easily be held accountable for their actions. Expect lots of trolls though.
6.1a won't even install on my Inspiron 9400, giving me a "memory parity error" on the initial reboot test for full drive encryption.
Have you run memtest86+ and let it go for at least two full tests? Could be one of your sticks is bad.
I don't think you understand how bad the Inspiron 9400 is. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love mine when it's working right but...
1) I'm on my 3rd hard disk. Never lost a laptop hard disk on a previous machine
2) I've had NMI parity errors that appear to be either hardware related (video card overheating) or driver related (that was the fix for me - replaced video and wireless drivers). There may be multiple causes. The following thread is now on it's 68th page (not a typo). I have since seen one NMI error but that's in about 6 months whereas with other drivers they happened daily.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=92036&page=68
3) I had an issue with a non-paged memory pool leak that took some weeks to track down and was causing it to slowly leak memory until the pool was exhausted and the laptop blue screened (usually if it's been running for 24 hours, with or without hibernation in between). What fixed it? A reset of the bios. Something I considered a last resort before re-sinstalling the OS having exhausted windows debugging tools to track down a process. Unbelievable.
Oh and memtest, prime95, HD Tune (SMART) and Dell's own diagnostics report no errors.
My advice: If you've got an Inspiron 9400 working right, leave the OS alone and stick to installing or uninstalling apps. This has been a cheap laptop until you consider the amount of time I've spent on it!
Hopefully Perens' guide can be read by more company execs -- resulting in fewer lawsuits going forward (but we're not holding our breath)
Until the risk of being sued for a significant amount of money is more statistically likely than being struck by lightning and a meteorite at the same moment, no exec is going to waste their time. In fact unless you start personally suing CEOs I bet they have more important things to spend their time on.
It is not the exec that should be reading this in any case. It's the project manager or section/department head that takes care of this detail. A CEO and/or legal department and/or risk management group (depending on the size of the company) should enforce that this aspect of the project be considered.
German Bundeswehr's idea of recruiting hackers in order to 'penetrate, manipulate and damage
You get the 'penetrate, manipulate and damage' with Budweiser or any beer, but why hackers only? Carnage for all I say!
I can see it now....tension as Amok Time climaxes with Kirk and Spock fighting to the death. /Queue melodramatic music
Kirk: Drink coke, Spock!
Spock: Eat at McDonalds!!! *Spock nails Kirk to the floor*
Kirk: No! *kick* Eat *kick* at *kick* Joe's *kick* Spock *kick*
...if you're running Linux ;-)
if you don't know how much your site licenses cost, then you aren't in a position to influence future software purchasing decisions.
Exactly what I was thinking, and very well put!
I have had to make huge compromises to accuracy to obtain the desired performance.
I watched your video and I don't get it. Exactly what compromises have you made? If you're talking about rough or heuristic scaling of fonts that's not the same as compromising accuracy on a processor. You're not going to pull up the calendar for the 14th when you click the 15th for instance.
More like your comment is the wussiest excuse for a troll. If you're going to try to be a pain in the arse at least do it properly.
This is *less* dangerous than if he were talking about Bubonic Plague and released lab mice - the mice would chew on wiring.
Really? Someone stands in front of me, rambles about malaria and releases mosquitos and I'm going to be pretty alarmed even if I'm reassured they're not infectious. Anyone in the audience have a heart condition?
Attendees are pissed? So wtf? Just a (fake) taste of reality is enough to get the attendees pissed eh?
He did people (minor) harm, without their permission and to make a point. He had no right whatsoever to do that. He is one of the richest men on the planet and lives on of the most luxurious lives you could imagine.
What he did was perfectly fine, even if a bit sensationalist. He made a point.
So if tomorrow he comes over, and tortures and kills your family to make the point that this happens in 3rd world countries, you're fine with that too?
Sure he didn't do anyone anywhere near that amount of harm but the principle stands. You can't hurt people just to make a point.
Or, an alternate way to look at it is that he's trying to remind the wealthy that just sitting still and letting poor rot instead of trying to help raise them up isn't a good thing.
Bill Gates releases a mossie swarm and he's hailed a a genius and philanthropist. If I did the same I'd probably be arrested on bio-terrorism charges if the powers that be were being hysterical, or if they were being more reasonable public endangerment and or nusance. At worst I'd be throwing my life away and at best I could expect to be doing community service and excluding myself from getting a job in my profession ever again. The irony of trying to demonstrate that we need to think of everyone by engaging in an act that shows how privelleged he is (as he won't be prosecuted) is wonderful. Typical arrogance.
He had no right to do this. How about one of the people bitten by mossies go to his house and release a whole infestation of fleas, or cockroaches and see how he likes it.
You do not get people to listen to your point of view by doing harm, even if it's just releasing a mossie plague. If that worked you could justify going around to someone's house and beat them into compliance. Bill Gates might get attention due to a publicity stunt but I sure as well won't listen to him or respect him if he's demonstrating he's an arrogant twit.
Second two are plausible, but what 16-bit app exists that wouldn't run at an acceptable speed under emulation on even a low-end 64-bit machine?
There are 32 bit apps with 16 bit installers, where emulation is not a good solution. Very few users are going to bother running VMware or the like for a few apps. Effectively going to a 64 bit version means giving up your 16 bit apps unless you're willing to put up with the pain of managing a virtual OS.
3. Stable kernel ABI would actually be harmful for Linux, because manufacturers wouldn't be as willing to release open-source drivers. Right now they do mainly because it takes considerable manpower to maintain a closed-source driver.
That is some FUCKED UP logic right there. We have to make it unstable and change it for no reason other than stability might mean someone might close their source. Fuck it if the price of freedom is having apps that don't run in 3 years keep your free OS. This is the kind of mentality that fucks up FOSS everywhere!
actually it would be "sudo apt-get install developers-developers-developers-developers"
They're firing at the moment, so it's sudo apt-get uninstall developers-developers-developers-developers
Not that I would even try. Who wouldn't install 64bit at this point in time anyways? What's the benefit to not installing 64bit?
Anyone who
- Has an app that is partly or fully written in 16 bit and still wants to run it.
- Has hardware for which there is no 64 bit driver and still wishes to be able to use it.
- Has less than about 3GB of RAM on the machine. 64 bit addressing also means that for 64 bit code and data, twice as much memory is used.
A new videocard + fully up to date DirectX/drivers is the best way to get okay framerates if you really want to do this rather than dual-booting.
There are PLENTY of people on that link with better cards and plenty more complaints.
Why on Earth wouldn't you want to dual boot for a game? It's not like you'll be writing a word document and checking your email while playing a FPS or simulator.