Hmmm... 'cause i never knew about them? Well, i will have a look at them when i have time (not for the next few months, i guess), but what i see on sourceforge isn't too encouraging: the newest release is dated 2001-09-01...
For cross-platform gui development, use Qt. It really *is* cute. I once tried to use wxWindows, and it just got my head all fuzzy -- nearly as bad as the MS win32 cruft. Or maybe i just didn't try hard enough?
Java is cool (my favorite language, actually), but Swing is just not up to the task (yet). Maybe SWT is, i still have to take a look at that.
That being said, it would be very very nice to have a runtime environment (read: VM) besides Java that runs on most systems and also provides compatible api for GUI and such..NET takes a good shot at that, and it takes on some points that are sadly missing from the java spec (like library/interface versioning)... all we need now is a decent free (as in speach) implementation, not just a free (as in beer) MS giveaway. I really hope the Mono/dotGnu stuff picks up some speed soon...
sidebar, boxes, headlines... all the same as ever. Tryed checking your settings?
BTW: It would be *really* helpful to have a place to post love-it/hate-it/make-it-better stuff. Or maybe a weekly "about slashdot -- from the examining-your-navel dept." headline? How about that, Taco?
PS: Gaaa! Kursor-Keys broken in Firebird -- again! This bug has ben around for soooooo long! so exuse any typos, this is just anoying.
They don't claim that *all* of the technology of the Intel processors infringes on their patents:
The patent at issue involves on-chip clocking technology.
So this is all about the technology of a processor controlling its own clock speed, wich was integrated into Intel's processors only over the last few years (AFAIK - but i'm not a hardware specialist). So, Intel's chips may or may not infringe on those patens, an the patents may or may not be trivial, but it just isn't as easy as saying "Intel processors have been around for much longer".
you submit a 5x16 bit password (4 knocks in a 16-bit range of ports plus the actual connect to the correct port). By forcing a 1sec delay between knock-sequences, one would need 2^80 seconds to brute-force it... that's 28334786263782000 Years if i didn't mess up. You can add some more bits by including the TCP-Flags required to be set for knock-packets, etc...
However, anyone sniffing your traffic could find out in a snap.
one can infer some type-info from the use of vars/params/etc. But Python does not really allow for that: if i write a function like this:
def foo(item):
frob(item.bar)
how is the inference-engine to know what type of object is expected for param 'item'? If the engin knows *all* class-declarations, and restrict the use of the function foo to objects that are instances of classes declaring 'bar', this would be much to strict: someone using your function could dynamically create the bar-field in some random object and use it with the foo function. How are you going to assert that this is allways/never the case?!
AS far as i know, BeanShell is able to execute (read: interpret) *any* java code. That doen't help with the memory-footprint, but it allows dynamically generated java to be run without having to invoke a compiler first.
BTW: The BSF (Bean Scripting Framework by IBM) has a engine-interpretation that allows using java-code as scripts. This is however implemented to compile the code into a class-file (which is quite slow the first time you run the code).
BSF is REALLY COOL as it provides a generic interface to scripting languages. So you can make your app scriptable without having to worry about the scripting language to use. Languages supported include (IIRC) JavaScript, Java, Python, Perl, Tkl, BML (bean Markup Language) and even Scheme and VB (i think). And it's quite easy to implement a custom engine for other languages...
The point is that the typechecking in Python is done at runtime (obviously). Having to *declare* the types of all variables/members/parameters allows to check for correct types without having to write test-cases that cover *every* possible path of execution (which, in general, is impossible anyway, especially if lambda-statements are involved).
Forcing programs to be type-save weeds out a lot of potential bugs beforehand. And it makes reading the code a lot easier.
consumer PCs no longer come bundled with any easy to use programming language...
errr.... Windows comes bundeled with VisualBasic (well, at least Office and a load of other apps include a VB Runtime), and Linux comes "bundeled" with Perl, Python, whatever-you-like.
Sure, the VB-support in Windows is not up-in-your-face, and VB sucks, but it's there... It's just carefully hidden from the user. Now, if that is good or bad is quite arguable, i guess.
Depends on what is meant by "bundeling". Just having an app installed by default is not a bad idea -- even most linux distros come with konqueror/xmms/etc as default apps.
I would also like *more* integration of such apps into standard components (like kpart does): Audio + Video-Preview in a file manager is cool, being able to integrate "foreign" document-snippets into master-documents (like MS OLE does it) also makes sense.
BUT: to make this A GOOD THING this would have to be done using OPEN STANDARDS for data formats and component interfaces. That is, all information needed to replace ANY standard component of the OS should be available to the public. (i don't say it has to be open source, i'm not a purist)
HOWEVER, Microsofts way of "integrating" and "bundeling" things seems more like welding the stuff in so it can't be changed at all, which is EVIL.
Not really, since you (obviously) can't connect to the client from the outside -- thus you can't attack it. The only way i can think of in which the client could be attacked is if the server was rooted or it's DNS/IP was hijacked, which is possible but rather unlikely. You rather see a lot of "scan and exploit" type of attacks, these days.
Miranda is very cool -- barebone IM with plugins for *everything*, like e-mail, babelfish, RSS feeds, etc, not to speak of IM protocols... with everything enabled, it uses about 1MB real + 5MB virtual mem.
The idea was proposed way back by John Brunner in his book "Shockwave Riser" (highly recomended -- also read "Standing on Sansibar"). It's called a "Delphi Poll" or "Delphi Pool" (both terms seem to be in popular use), and there have been numerouse attempts to implement this (which usually failed because auf lack of betters).
The Idea is quite interresting, especially with respect to the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy: if a number of people have bet a large amount of money on some future event, they will try to make it happen...
That's something i've been musing about for some time now. Here in Germany, it is your constitutional right to assemble (peacefully and without arms) in any public place.
However: City Parks and Squares are not considered really public: The city's administration has "domestic authority" (Hausrecht) which basically means they are allowed to ask you to leave. (Note: you don't have to be the owner of a place to have the "Hausrecht" there: If i rent an apartment, i would even be able to throw out the actual owner if s/he comes without prior notice).
This leaves you with the posibility to go demonstrating out in the woods, although there are not many woods in germany that are truely public property. If any...
So what's the use of a Consitution if it gets cirumvented permanently? I personally thing that every law should routinely be tryed by the supreme court (or equivalent) before it takes effect.
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Hmmm... 'cause i never knew about them? Well, i will have a look at them when i have time (not for the next few months, i guess), but what i see on sourceforge isn't too encouraging: the newest release is dated 2001-09-01...
For cross-platform gui development, use Qt. It really *is* cute. I once tried to use wxWindows, and it just got my head all fuzzy -- nearly as bad as the MS win32 cruft. Or maybe i just didn't try hard enough?
.NET takes a good shot at that, and it takes on some points that are sadly missing from the java spec (like library/interface versioning)... all we need now is a decent free (as in speach) implementation, not just a free (as in beer) MS giveaway. I really hope the Mono/dotGnu stuff picks up some speed soon...
Java is cool (my favorite language, actually), but Swing is just not up to the task (yet). Maybe SWT is, i still have to take a look at that.
That being said, it would be very very nice to have a runtime environment (read: VM) besides Java that runs on most systems and also provides compatible api for GUI and such.
try getting an account... or log in, if you have one;)
sidebar, boxes, headlines... all the same as ever. Tryed checking your settings?
BTW: It would be *really* helpful to have a place to post love-it/hate-it/make-it-better stuff. Or maybe a weekly "about slashdot -- from the examining-your-navel dept." headline? How about that, Taco?
PS: Gaaa! Kursor-Keys broken in Firebird -- again! This bug has ben around for soooooo long! so exuse any typos, this is just anoying.
i haven't seen a popup in years.... go mozilla ;)
The patent at issue involves on-chip clocking technology.
So this is all about the technology of a processor controlling its own clock speed, wich was integrated into Intel's processors only over the last few years (AFAIK - but i'm not a hardware specialist). So, Intel's chips may or may not infringe on those patens, an the patents may or may not be trivial, but it just isn't as easy as saying "Intel processors have been around for much longer".
...this should not be a reply-to-self but a reply to the AC telling me about OCAML. damn.
...it's more like plain-text-auth:
you submit a 5x16 bit password (4 knocks in a 16-bit range of ports plus the actual connect to the correct port). By forcing a 1sec delay between knock-sequences, one would need 2^80 seconds to brute-force it... that's 28334786263782000 Years if i didn't mess up. You can add some more bits by including the TCP-Flags required to be set for knock-packets, etc...
However, anyone sniffing your traffic could find out in a snap.
And no, it's not revolutionarry. But its nifty!
...it's already /.ed. Congrats;)
how is the inference-engine to know what type of object is expected for param 'item'? If the engin knows *all* class-declarations, and restrict the use of the function foo to objects that are instances of classes declaring 'bar', this would be much to strict: someone using your function could dynamically create the bar-field in some random object and use it with the foo function. How are you going to assert that this is allways/never the case?!
AS far as i know, BeanShell is able to execute (read: interpret) *any* java code. That doen't help with the memory-footprint, but it allows dynamically generated java to be run without having to invoke a compiler first.
BTW: The BSF (Bean Scripting Framework by IBM) has a engine-interpretation that allows using java-code as scripts. This is however implemented to compile the code into a class-file (which is quite slow the first time you run the code).
BSF is REALLY COOL as it provides a generic interface to scripting languages. So you can make your app scriptable without having to worry about the scripting language to use. Languages supported include (IIRC) JavaScript, Java, Python, Perl, Tkl, BML (bean Markup Language) and even Scheme and VB (i think). And it's quite easy to implement a custom engine for other languages...
The point is that the typechecking in Python is done at runtime (obviously). Having to *declare* the types of all variables/members/parameters allows to check for correct types without having to write test-cases that cover *every* possible path of execution (which, in general, is impossible anyway, especially if lambda-statements are involved).
Forcing programs to be type-save weeds out a lot of potential bugs beforehand. And it makes reading the code a lot easier.
consumer PCs no longer come bundled with any easy to use programming language...
errr.... Windows comes bundeled with VisualBasic (well, at least Office and a load of other apps include a VB Runtime), and Linux comes "bundeled" with Perl, Python, whatever-you-like.
Sure, the VB-support in Windows is not up-in-your-face, and VB sucks, but it's there... It's just carefully hidden from the user. Now, if that is good or bad is quite arguable, i guess.
Depends on what is meant by "bundeling". Just having an app installed by default is not a bad idea -- even most linux distros come with konqueror/xmms/etc as default apps.
I would also like *more* integration of such apps into standard components (like kpart does): Audio + Video-Preview in a file manager is cool, being able to integrate "foreign" document-snippets into master-documents (like MS OLE does it) also makes sense.
BUT: to make this A GOOD THING this would have to be done using OPEN STANDARDS for data formats and component interfaces. That is, all information needed to replace ANY standard component of the OS should be available to the public. (i don't say it has to be open source, i'm not a purist)
HOWEVER, Microsofts way of "integrating" and "bundeling" things seems more like welding the stuff in so it can't be changed at all, which is EVIL.
...is that from The Princess Bride? I love that book! never knew there is a movie, though... is it any good?
Not really, since you (obviously) can't connect to the client from the outside -- thus you can't attack it.
The only way i can think of in which the client could be attacked is if the server was rooted or it's DNS/IP was hijacked, which is possible but rather unlikely. You rather see a lot of "scan and exploit" type of attacks, these days.
try this:
cp image.svg image.xml
clicky...
darn, misspelled "Shockwave Rider" in the parent. Hate to reply to self. Oh well.
BTW: here is an interresting article on the topic (in German, go fishing): Wetten, das die Zukunft spannend wird!...
Mozilla is your friend...
go to about:config, find the browser.blink_allowed setting, tweak as you like....:-)
Miranda is very cool -- barebone IM with plugins for *everything*, like e-mail, babelfish, RSS feeds, etc, not to speak of IM protocols... with everything enabled, it uses about 1MB real + 5MB virtual mem.
nice...
The idea was proposed way back by John Brunner in his book "Shockwave Riser" (highly recomended -- also read "Standing on Sansibar"). It's called a "Delphi Poll" or "Delphi Pool" (both terms seem to be in popular use), and there have been numerouse attempts to implement this (which usually failed because auf lack of betters).
The Idea is quite interresting, especially with respect to the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy: if a number of people have bet a large amount of money on some future event, they will try to make it happen...
However: City Parks and Squares are not considered really public: The city's administration has "domestic authority" (Hausrecht) which basically means they are allowed to ask you to leave. (Note: you don't have to be the owner of a place to have the "Hausrecht" there: If i rent an apartment, i would even be able to throw out the actual owner if s/he comes without prior notice).
This leaves you with the posibility to go demonstrating out in the woods, although there are not many woods in germany that are truely public property. If any...
So what's the use of a Consitution if it gets cirumvented permanently? I personally thing that every law should routinely be tryed by the supreme court (or equivalent) before it takes effect.
You have been trolled.
Have a nice day.
Thanks.
I managed not to learn FORTARAN yet, luckily. I hope i never have to.
Now i will go and change my sig. And be ashamed.
That sig looks kinda fimiliar ;) Damn, now i need to change mine...
Any clou who sait that, and which version is the "original"? i don't...
chears