I wouldn't blame this one on Microsoft, I'd blame it on OEMs who, in order to sell more machines, "simplify" the Windows security model by making a renamed Administrator account (HP_Owner, anyone?) the default.
The same guilt should haunt anyone creates a desktop-destined Linux distribution that "simplifies" the Linux security model the same way.
I didn't mean to say the article didn't change much, I meant to say that, at this point, the base subject doesn't change much. Which makes it a much easier target to write and maintain a Wiki article for.
And you can bet that the articles for well-understood science and math catagories are going to be well-maintained, since they're likely to be referenced a great deal by people who have some knowledge of the subject. (If for no other reason than Wikipedia formatting policies typically make it easier to digest than some random professor's web page.)
I was actually going to suggest the same thing. AFAIK, it's not IM protocol that are insecure to the point of allowing worms to propogate, it's the client. Jabber is a standardized protocol, allowing for a multitude of different clients.
Different clients are unlikely to share the same vulnerabilities, so, with a wide variety of clients in use, you're not going to have one single worm that can infect a huge portion of the network.
Some articles don't change much. Such as ones about mathematical concepts, or physics, astronomy, or chemistry. Sure, some details change, sometime there's new supporting details, but the base concepts remain the same.
You just gave me an idea...Why not include a serverside text-to-speech synthesizer accessible through mp3 streams? You open the stream with a specific URL derived from the address of the content in the wiki.
You'd probably want to cache the source file generated to save on CPU power. Wipe the cached file if the original article is modified.
It's worse than you think. We've been drifting back towards party-endorsed newspapers for longer than I've been alive.
You think freedom of the press has always been about keeping an informed public? Originally, the first ammendment was excepted because each politician knew he didn't want his party's newspapers silenced when his party wasn't in power.
However, I'll take the occasional hack journalist over state-controlled media any day. It's better to be a lemming with good vision than a horse with blinders on.
3)...chrooted file systems , especially ones on a different underlying filesystem... This is Windows. You must be new here.
Windows XP supports FAT16, FAT32 and various versions of NTFS, as a start. And I've seen third-party drivers to support EXT2 and FTP.
It's not that Windows doesn't support multiple filesystems, or even that it hides it better. It's just that we UNIX users tend to be more aware of the filesystems they're running, since, for example, system crashes have different impacts on journalled filesystems vs non-journalled filesystems, and even between different journalled filsystems.
Open Notepad and drag one of those shortcuts into the editing area. Shortcuts are plaintext files with a.lnk extension. Explorer and Cygwin know to read these files to figure out what you really meant to refer to.
I look at my (admittedly small) AMV, and MOD/STM/S3M/XM/etc. collections, and wish they had a consistent and useful naming scheme. I've always wanted to write an app that would allow me to browse my collections logically.
There's two ways to do this. One would require creating huge volumes of symlinks for the different ways I'd want to search my collections. The other would be FUSE.
Of course, even with the inclusion of FUSE into the kernel, it's not like I'll have time to actually go and write it.
Another app I'd like to see would be remote access to CD/DVD writing devices. Basically, a network-operated cdrecord. But I've had no illusions about being able to write that...
What's funny is that it's becomming hard for even a Microsoft-hater like myself to be convinced that Microsoft's position is still stifling innovation.
I still think it's useful, though I can't come up with any examples not solvable by other methods. But the nice thing about C++ is, like Perl, There's More Than One Way To Do It.
Also, I don't think a language should be designed around keeping a stupid programmer or project team from shooting themselves in the foot.
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I wouldn't blame this one on Microsoft, I'd blame it on OEMs who, in order to sell more machines, "simplify" the Windows security model by making a renamed Administrator account (HP_Owner, anyone?) the default.
The same guilt should haunt anyone creates a desktop-destined Linux distribution that "simplifies" the Linux security model the same way.
I didn't mean to say the article didn't change much, I meant to say that, at this point, the base subject doesn't change much. Which makes it a much easier target to write and maintain a Wiki article for.
And you can bet that the articles for well-understood science and math catagories are going to be well-maintained, since they're likely to be referenced a great deal by people who have some knowledge of the subject. (If for no other reason than Wikipedia formatting policies typically make it easier to digest than some random professor's web page.)
I was actually going to suggest the same thing. AFAIK, it's not IM protocol that are insecure to the point of allowing worms to propogate, it's the client. Jabber is a standardized protocol, allowing for a multitude of different clients.
Different clients are unlikely to share the same vulnerabilities, so, with a wide variety of clients in use, you're not going to have one single worm that can infect a huge portion of the network.
Some articles don't change much. Such as ones about mathematical concepts, or physics, astronomy, or chemistry. Sure, some details change, sometime there's new supporting details, but the base concepts remain the same.
You just gave me an idea...Why not include a serverside text-to-speech synthesizer accessible through mp3 streams? You open the stream with a specific URL derived from the address of the content in the wiki.
You'd probably want to cache the source file generated to save on CPU power. Wipe the cached file if the original article is modified.
It's worse than you think. We've been drifting back towards party-endorsed newspapers for longer than I've been alive.
You think freedom of the press has always been about keeping an informed public? Originally, the first ammendment was excepted because each politician knew he didn't want his party's newspapers silenced when his party wasn't in power.
However, I'll take the occasional hack journalist over state-controlled media any day. It's better to be a lemming with good vision than a horse with blinders on.
Of course, this is essentially the same thing as Google paying programmers to work for Sun, with control over what they work on.
Neat arrangement. Kinda like the USA offering financial aid to a poor country, but with control over what that aid gets spent on.
This doesn't seem as funny as it used to be.
Doubt...and I had that in mind when I first started composing the comment. :-/
If FreeDOS will do what you want, then you don't need Windows or Linux.
But if your application needs to support enough different network drivers, then FreeDOS certainly won't be in the running as an alternative.
It's mostly about branding and attracting the attention of PHBs. There's probably some interest in scalability, too.
I've seen comments on Plan9 before...just not attached to every single OS-theory article like I've seen lately.
3) ...chrooted file systems , especially ones on a different underlying filesystem...
This is Windows. You must be new here.
Windows XP supports FAT16, FAT32 and various versions of NTFS, as a start. And I've seen third-party drivers to support EXT2 and FTP.
It's not that Windows doesn't support multiple filesystems, or even that it hides it better. It's just that we UNIX users tend to be more aware of the filesystems they're running, since, for example, system crashes have different impacts on journalled filesystems vs non-journalled filesystems, and even between different journalled filsystems.
Open Notepad and drag one of those shortcuts into the editing area. Shortcuts are plaintext files with a .lnk extension. Explorer and Cygwin know to read these files to figure out what you really meant to refer to.
Simply treating Desktop as \ would ma me happy in that regard. It would allow something like "cd "\My Documents".
Arguably, per-user root directories would be more inuitive and convenient than per-user home directories.
The Plan9 troll, that is.
Not dissing Plan9; It's clearly relevant as a research OS. But it's not relevant as a commonly-used or even well-known OS.
I guess being tired does funny things to you. I remember it like it was yesterday. Mostly, I guess, because I've run Debian all this time..
...I'm specifically thinking about the one that took out the Debian servers last year. (Too tired to find a link...sorry.)
Funny, because it was designed specifically to protect from "magic missile."
I look at my (admittedly small) AMV, and MOD/STM/S3M/XM/etc. collections, and wish they had a consistent and useful naming scheme. I've always wanted to write an app that would allow me to browse my collections logically.
There's two ways to do this. One would require creating huge volumes of symlinks for the different ways I'd want to search my collections. The other would be FUSE.
Of course, even with the inclusion of FUSE into the kernel, it's not like I'll have time to actually go and write it.
Another app I'd like to see would be remote access to CD/DVD writing devices. Basically, a network-operated cdrecord. But I've had no illusions about being able to write that...
Gah...thanks. Been a while since I goofed a link like that. "Preview" showed [citygen.org], so I assumed the link was good.
IT's sometimes installs them on a Ghost image for a semester. They've almost invariably caused Word to crash hard.
What's funny is that it's becomming hard for even a Microsoft-hater like myself to be convinced that Microsoft's position is still stifling innovation.
The fact that it's a plaintext format makes it easy to produce forms from other applications. Just find-and-replace substrings.
When I eventually get time, I want to add that functionality to my D&D City generator
If they supported MS Works, it'd save the computer lab I work in a ton of trouble every semester.
Then again, if PC manufacturers bundled OpenOffice with new PCs, that'd solve the problem, too.
Point taken, chewed and swallowed.
I still think it's useful, though I can't come up with any examples not solvable by other methods. But the nice thing about C++ is, like Perl, There's More Than One Way To Do It.
Also, I don't think a language should be designed around keeping a stupid programmer or project team from shooting themselves in the foot.