Konquerer 2.2.2 (and probably up) has this. Look in the Enhanced Browsing section of the settings for a list of the 25+ additional shortcuts (e.g., "gg:browser features" in the address bar will search Google, change gg to ly and you search in Lycos, etc.).
Re:I was just reading this at the bookstore...
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What about techniques/systems for the 1 man show?
I presented a paper on this topic at last year's Conference on XP and Agile Methods. You can find a copy at ftp.ancar.org.
Given that new threats arise continually, bringning in a one-shot counsulting team to give you a check-in-the-box is useless. Without actual security personnel monitoring the ongoing security of your system, you are still vulnerable on an ongoing basis. If you don't have the money to hire IT people who are security aware, you probably shouldn't be online, given that the alternatives (consultants, remote monitoring systems, monitoring consoles, etc.) are much more expensive.
The best thing you can do, if you really need to be online, is to TRAIN YOUR PEOPLE. First in IT, if necessary, then in security.
Doing anything else is a waste of resources that will lead only to a false sense of... well, security.
As an example, if you must buy a Ford radio for your Ford car, your choices are more limited than if you can buy any radio, tape player, CD player, etc. and just "plug it in". They can also require you to buy one of their (presumably overpriced) radios with every car they sell, even if you don't need a radio. The example breaks down with software; a Ford truck can't know you've installed a non-Ford radio, and therefore can't demand that you remove it and replace it with a genuine Ford radio. With software, it not only can do this, it can do it by itself.
This is breaking down in the auto market, too. Most cars these days are little more than sensors, actuators, and software, sitting on a frame that holds it all together and sporting a seat for your butt to ride in. Newer electric car designs are proposing combination motor/wheel units which are replaced in toto for repair. As more of the value of the unit becomes IP-based, fewer of the parts become replacable.
Not that the original analogy wasn't good, it's just not going to be true 25 years or so from now...
It's my impression that the often friendly, affable-if-nerdy face of Mr. Gates does hide a darker side, one which has more disdain for the little guy than the PR suggests...
You're actually wrong about this. The nerd side is actually the one that is the managed face. It is managed quite well by a PR firm based, ironically enough, here in Portland. Every time Billy-boy gets into a bind, his PR firm trots out his "Aw shucks... I'm just a nerd trying to make your life better" face (usually dressed in a sweater), making sure his hair is a bit rumpled, for the covers of Newsweek or Time.
His is one of the most well-managed personas in the nation. In reality, he is a meglamaniacal and rapacious as he seems. Even more scary, he truly believes that he's making life better for the average guy out there by driving convergence and simplifying life by providing a standard platform. This makes him more dangerous than bin Laden, because he is just as fanatical and has much more money and contacts deep within the body of the world's homes and businesses as well. He and his organization have far too much power to entrust to any one non-publically controlled body. He has the closest approximation to absolute power that we have seen in a long, long time. Be afraid. Be very afraid...
Even ignoring for a moment that 'censorship' is really only when THE GOVERNMENT prevents you from saying something, not a PRIVATE COMPANY!
Look it up in a dictionary before you say something like this.
American Heritage Dictionary, 4'th Ed.: censorship -- The act, process, or practice of censoring. censor -- To examine and expurgate.
In fact, all of the dictionaries on dictionary.com have governmental review as an aside or example only. The act of censorship may be undertaken by any individual or entity with the power to halt publication - not just the government.
The commercial success of such sofware depends on the vendor having information about viruses that other organizations or people do not have!
An incorrect assumption. There is a "gentleman's agreement" between the vendors that require that if a virus sample is submitted to one, the others get it, too. The companies compete on technology, speed of response, quality of response, support, and any number of other things. But they don't hide virus samples from each other.
In fact, they are probably not above writing and distributing viruses to stay in business
Another canard. There are enough virus writers in the world to make this quite unnecessary. Most of the AV company's response teams have enough work to do without some secret internal cabal of virus writers making more.
One thing I would be interested in knowing is how staff turnover effects development.
Look at Software Project Dynamics: An Integrated Approach by Tarek Abdel-Hamid (ISBN 0-13-822040-9). In it he builds a model of the software development process and shows many remarkable results. Things like a high turnover rate can completely destroy productivity. He also shows that Brooks' law is a bit simplistic (You CAN add people to a late project, but it has to be done very carefully).
Even though it's a dozen years old, it's still a very good book. It's a shame more people don't know about this. The research, as far as I can tell, still holds up well.
I know that I'll get flamed to hell for this, but I got karma to burn. I'm going to play devil's advocate and ask "What the hell are libraries doing being Internet cafes in the first place?". As budgets shrink around the country, I'd think that libraries have more important things to spend money on than SysMins, Windows license fees, and IP charges for online info. Things like basic literacy, librarians, and books, maybe?
I mean, sheesh. If they got their priorities straight in the first place, they wouldn't need to bump against this issue at all...
Just because we accept one does not mean we HAVE to accept the others. Man is a thinking creature and has choices about what he or she allows to happen. Just because something is logical does not mean it is mandatory (selling Crack for money is logical and we still do not let GM do it legally) no matter what people who believe that logic is a sine qua non happen to believe.
Furthermore, I challenge the assumption that euthanesia would not be controlled by the patient (I'm from Oregon, we're funny that way) and that killing unhealthy old people or people with incurable diseases is "logical". In the end, whether people live or die has nothing to do with logic and everything to do with value. The fact that you see all of these items as logical steps says more about your value structure than about reality.
And whoever modded this tripe up as "Insightful" must truly be illogical.
You're getting something for nothing, no matter what way you look at it...
You're talking about Celine Dion, for Christ's sake. I'd say that's getting NOTHING for nothing.
Re:Valgrind and memory leaks
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try writing some real world application with more than 5 lines of code in it [without] memory leaks.
It's quite doable if you use a decent language to start with. I'd recommend Smalltalk, Lisp, ML, etc. All of these (especially ML and Lisp) can reach "good enough" speeds to compete with C/C++ in the case of most GUI app and, where they don't, a few simple C stubs (which are much easier to check for memory leaks) are usually sufficient to remedy the issue.
In short, don't excuse the difficulty of writing software on the basis of YOUR choice of poor technology.
The only reason we stayed in Japan is that Truman needed a place to stash McArthur becuase he was too popular to bring back to the States. If it weren't for this until we began to sse the Commies as a threat and seen Japan as a good defense point, it would have been "Sayonara, Baby!"
There was a defect in releases earlier than 5.0.9. When E-mail was received from an address having a certain form, the system would go into a hung state, consuming 100% of the server's CPU cycles. Here is the reference to the details.
The defect was fixed in version 5.0.9 and Lotus has moved on with version 5.0.10 being released soon. Many people as of yet have not upgraded their servers, leaving ORBZ open to similar actions if they stumble accross other Domino servers that are running older software and whose owners might be more litigious.
Probably onto some kind of target laid out by Taco Bell as a free taco promotion.
Yeah, but will they put that dumb chihuahua in the middle of the target?
Re:Easy to scoff until you remember...
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Soviet Moon Rocket
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In addition, the Moon could become an important construction base for ships designed to fly further out, as well as for space stations...
The moon might be a useful source of raw materials, but why the heck would you use it for ship construction? Why get out of one gravity well just to dump yourself into another? Just build the damn thing in orbit.
This is a really nice result. The only thing I would wonder about is whether you can get your Y-combinator in less than 12 S/K's. Since equivalent forms all left-reduce to the same string, you should be able to build and enumerate tree's easily enough, so I wonder why they didn't do this to claim an official "absolute result" for the smallest Y-combinator...
Re:I saw this in a screening a couple weeks ago in
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William Shatner kicks ass, though.
Oh give me a break! In this film he couldn't even play himself well. Shatner sucked balls.
And, BTW, Katz is right. This movie was lame. If Murphey and De Niro want to keep their stardom, they need to figure out that the first step is to make sure they (or their agents) read the script before accepting the part.
I don't think Mr. Grove would appreciate the government making *any* requirements on how Intel designs its chips, DRM or no.
Andy Grove is no saint in this fight. Given that Intel's VC and media arms have invested mnay dollars in tne field of DRM, I'm sure it's the former (i.e., DRM rather than no). Just because AG doesn't want a particular DRM technology mandated doesn't mean he wants no DRM. That's not to say he can't be useful in this case, but just remember that when you're playing for money, you have no friends...
Congress, over the last 25 years has gotten tired of paying for specialized military development unless absolutely necessary. You can't go down to your local Office Depot and get a B-2 bomber, but you can get a copy of MS Exchange. If the military DID develop a specialized E-Mail solution, it WOULD have been much more expensive. Unfortunately, they didn't seem to look at the commercial (and free) alternatives very well...
Slashdot Mirror
Or at least GNU Emacs.
Konquerer 2.2.2 (and probably up) has this. Look in the Enhanced Browsing section of the settings for a list of the 25+ additional shortcuts (e.g., "gg:browser features" in the address bar will search Google, change gg to ly and you search in Lycos, etc.).
I presented a paper on this topic at last year's Conference on XP and Agile Methods. You can find a copy at ftp.ancar.org.
The best thing you can do, if you really need to be online, is to TRAIN YOUR PEOPLE. First in IT, if necessary, then in security.
Doing anything else is a waste of resources that will lead only to a false sense of... well, security.
This is breaking down in the auto market, too. Most cars these days are little more than sensors, actuators, and software, sitting on a frame that holds it all together and sporting a seat for your butt to ride in. Newer electric car designs are proposing combination motor/wheel units which are replaced in toto for repair. As more of the value of the unit becomes IP-based, fewer of the parts become replacable.
Not that the original analogy wasn't good, it's just not going to be true 25 years or so from now...
You're actually wrong about this. The nerd side is actually the one that is the managed face. It is managed quite well by a PR firm based, ironically enough, here in Portland. Every time Billy-boy gets into a bind, his PR firm trots out his "Aw shucks... I'm just a nerd trying to make your life better" face (usually dressed in a sweater), making sure his hair is a bit rumpled, for the covers of Newsweek or Time.
His is one of the most well-managed personas in the nation. In reality, he is a meglamaniacal and rapacious as he seems. Even more scary, he truly believes that he's making life better for the average guy out there by driving convergence and simplifying life by providing a standard platform. This makes him more dangerous than bin Laden, because he is just as fanatical and has much more money and contacts deep within the body of the world's homes and businesses as well. He and his organization have far too much power to entrust to any one non-publically controlled body. He has the closest approximation to absolute power that we have seen in a long, long time. Be afraid. Be very afraid...
Look it up in a dictionary before you say something like this.
American Heritage Dictionary, 4'th Ed.:
censorship -- The act, process, or practice of censoring.
censor -- To examine and expurgate.
In fact, all of the dictionaries on dictionary.com have governmental review as an aside or example only. The act of censorship may be undertaken by any individual or entity with the power to halt publication - not just the government.
An incorrect assumption. There is a "gentleman's agreement" between the vendors that require that if a virus sample is submitted to one, the others get it, too. The companies compete on technology, speed of response, quality of response, support, and any number of other things. But they don't hide virus samples from each other.
In fact, they are probably not above writing and distributing viruses to stay in business
Another canard. There are enough virus writers in the world to make this quite unnecessary. Most of the AV company's response teams have enough work to do without some secret internal cabal of virus writers making more.
Look at Software Project Dynamics: An Integrated Approach by Tarek Abdel-Hamid (ISBN 0-13-822040-9). In it he builds a model of the software development process and shows many remarkable results. Things like a high turnover rate can completely destroy productivity. He also shows that Brooks' law is a bit simplistic (You CAN add people to a late project, but it has to be done very carefully).
Even though it's a dozen years old, it's still a very good book. It's a shame more people don't know about this. The research, as far as I can tell, still holds up well.
I mean, sheesh. If they got their priorities straight in the first place, they wouldn't need to bump against this issue at all...
Furthermore, I challenge the assumption that euthanesia would not be controlled by the patient (I'm from Oregon, we're funny that way) and that killing unhealthy old people or people with incurable diseases is "logical". In the end, whether people live or die has nothing to do with logic and everything to do with value. The fact that you see all of these items as logical steps says more about your value structure than about reality.
And whoever modded this tripe up as "Insightful" must truly be illogical.
You're talking about Celine Dion, for Christ's sake. I'd say that's getting NOTHING for nothing.
It's quite doable if you use a decent language to start with. I'd recommend Smalltalk, Lisp, ML, etc. All of these (especially ML and Lisp) can reach "good enough" speeds to compete with C/C++ in the case of most GUI app and, where they don't, a few simple C stubs (which are much easier to check for memory leaks) are usually sufficient to remedy the issue.
In short, don't excuse the difficulty of writing software on the basis of YOUR choice of poor technology.
Nope! They're un-American! Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk...
You just described the original AS/400 file system. And it's been around since it was the System 38, back in the early '70's. Kids...
...The Flying Car.
The only reason we stayed in Japan is that Truman needed a place to stash McArthur becuase he was too popular to bring back to the States. If it weren't for this until we began to sse the Commies as a threat and seen Japan as a good defense point, it would have been "Sayonara, Baby!"
As far as I know (and I may be wrong) it's not a paid upgrade for a sub-minor version.
The defect was fixed in version 5.0.9 and Lotus has moved on with version 5.0.10 being released soon. Many people as of yet have not upgraded their servers, leaving ORBZ open to similar actions if they stumble accross other Domino servers that are running older software and whose owners might be more litigious.
So ORBZ isn't out of the woods yet.
Yeah, but will they put that dumb chihuahua in the middle of the target?
The moon might be a useful source of raw materials, but why the heck would you use it for ship construction? Why get out of one gravity well just to dump yourself into another? Just build the damn thing in orbit.
This is a really nice result. The only thing I would wonder about is whether you can get your Y-combinator in less than 12 S/K's. Since equivalent forms all left-reduce to the same string, you should be able to build and enumerate tree's easily enough, so I wonder why they didn't do this to claim an official "absolute result" for the smallest Y-combinator...
Oh give me a break! In this film he couldn't even play himself well. Shatner sucked balls.
And, BTW, Katz is right. This movie was lame. If Murphey and De Niro want to keep their stardom, they need to figure out that the first step is to make sure they (or their agents) read the script before accepting the part.
Andy Grove is no saint in this fight. Given that Intel's VC and media arms have invested mnay dollars in tne field of DRM, I'm sure it's the former (i.e., DRM rather than no). Just because AG doesn't want a particular DRM technology mandated doesn't mean he wants no DRM. That's not to say he can't be useful in this case, but just remember that when you're playing for money, you have no friends...
COTS initiatives.
Congress, over the last 25 years has gotten tired of paying for specialized military development unless absolutely necessary. You can't go down to your local Office Depot and get a B-2 bomber, but you can get a copy of MS Exchange. If the military DID develop a specialized E-Mail solution, it WOULD have been much more expensive. Unfortunately, they didn't seem to look at the commercial (and free) alternatives very well...