I've seen progress bars that go backwards, but it usually indicates reversal of something that is done previously.
I've seen that once. The progress bar went up halfway, zipped back to the start and then went up again (this time to the end). There was another guy watching along with me. We both said "What the F--- did just happen?" at the same time.
We were writing a DVD image. I had to make several other images, but this never happened again.
I imagine it would be technically trivial to simply require that *both* numbers link to emergency services. It would be easy to do, and would make things a lot safer for visitors in either America or Europe who may only be familiar with one or the other.
AFAIK, phone switches already do that. I'm pretty sure I can dial 100 (emergency number for landlines over here) on my cell phone and ask to send an ambulance over. I think the old emergency number (900 - removed about 20 years ago) still works.
I wouldn't surprise me if 911 also works.
(Not tested - I prefer not to pay a fine for abusing those numbers.)
It's been a while since I've read anything about this, but my sense is that Cutler was quite upset with Ken Olsen who cut the project he was working on at the time.
AFAIK, this is correct.
Many have noted over the years that if you take the acronym VMS (an operating system that Cutler contributed to) and shift each letter plus one, you get WNT (Windows NT).
When asked about this, Dave Cutler supposedly said something to the effect of "it's about time somebody noticed". On the other hand, some other stories indicate that the "NT" name was used before Cutler joined the team.
Belgium has the Proton card. Also started in the 1990s. It has had some success, but it's in decline and will be phased out.
The chip is integrated into a regular debit card. It is also used to authorize ATM payments and online banking sessions. Most debit card terminals interface with the chip. The magnetic strip is no longer used.
They can (and do) track the balance of the Proton card: when I lost my card, I got a refund on my checking account.
I used to use NT back in the 3.1 and 3.5 days. It used to ship for i386, mips, ppc, and alpha systems. At version 4.0, mips and ppc were cut. I believe the alpha port survived until Windows 2000 (I had stopped paying attention by then).
IIRC, the Alpha port was canceled right before the Windows 2000 release.
While there are plenty of non-Exchange mail servers, the number of non-Exchange mailbox servers in enterprise environments (>1000 users) is pretty small.
Don't forget Lotus Notes. IBM has some very large accounts using that.
Why blame the tool? It's like blaming the web browser that the people used to access PHPMyAdmin to access the unsecured database.
AFAIK, PHPMyAdmin doesn't have its own security. The user/password is passed to the MySQL server. If they were able to create databases without a password, it would seem that MySQL was installed without a password for the mysql admin user. During installation, MySQL asks to set a root password. A long time ago, this was not the case.
This would seem that they had a very old MySQL setup and they never changed the password.
Indeed... I am currently living in Belgium and did not know that there was an ISP DNS block to the pirate bay (I just checked again and it worked)... coincidentally I am using the google DNS:es.
It seems like a rather toothless way of blocking access to a specific site.
Also from Belgium, using the regular ISP DNS.
No problem accessing thepiratebay.com. www.thepiratebay.com forwards to depiraatbaai.be, which points to the same site.
Manual memory management is tedious and error-prone. You need to add your destructor calls in all the right places, taking into account all possible program flows. Any mistake results in a memory leak or a crash.
It is not hard to deallocate what you have allocated.
Not if you have shared objects.
And yes, I am a Java developer since 10 years.
And you still don't understand the environment you're working on? That's sad.
We have had round-abouts here in Australia for well over 20 years and people still don't know how to use them properly. It is especially dangerous for pedestrians who cannot tell if a car is going to keep going around the round-about or if they are going to turn off.
I learned how in the Netherlands. Keep your inside blinker on until you're ready to exit the intersection, then switch to other one when you're ready to exit. That way everyone can clearly see what your intentions are.
In Belgium, you only have to use the blinker when exiting the roundabout, not when entering (makes sense: it's the only way to go).
Actually, the Pentium Pro was a GREAT chip, assuming you were running 32 bit software, and there was no reason to not run 32 bit software if you were going to run the Pentium Pro.
Also, the PPro is the basis for the Pentium II, III processors. It's one of Intel's most successful CPU designs. It was so good that Intel went back when they ran into problems with the Pentium 4. (Creating the Pentium M and Core 1 processors.)
there was a paper about combining a (crappy) machine translation with low-skilled workers, who natively understand the target language, to patch up the glaring flaws.
I'm working on a project where the translations are handled like that. We send all texts to an external company, and a few hours later, they send back the translation. This seems to work relatively well.
The next phase involves immediate translation without human intervention. I'm curious as to how that will work out.
"All of the Garmin Nuvi GPS units I have had have a warning screen that shows every single time that it is turned on saying this."
My TomTom doesn't do that... does that mean Garmin assumes their buyers are stupider or that TomTom isn't worried about being sued?
My TomTom showed me the disclaimer the first time I switched it on. They seem to assume the device is only used by a single person who is capable of remembering the warning.
I used to have an in-car GPS that made me click through the disclaimer each time I used it. So instead of pushing one button, I had to push GPS and then OK. (And then wait until the system was loaded.)
I suppose the big difference would be for ISPs and anyone else running DNS servers that redirect failed lookups to their own pages, this would no longer be useful as a test to see if your dns server will actually return NXDOMAIN for anything.
You can use a.com (or any other single letter) for that.
Trust me, I'm well aware of em-spaces, en-spaces, thin spaces, hair spaces, 1/3-em spaces, 1/4-em spaces, &c &c &c. The point is that you will just about never find a professionally-published book or magazine that uses double-spaces after a sentence.
I checked a couple of (English) books in my library, and all of them used single spaces after a sentence. Except for The TeX Book. (I didn't check other TeX-related books, but I guess they would do the same.) AFAIK, English is the only language that used to have the "double space after a sentence". To me (a non-native English reader), using 2 spaces in a monospaced text just looks weird. In a book, it doesn't distract that much.
In typesetting, there is no such thing as "two spaces". There is just space between words, and that space would be larger or smaller in order to justify the line. Some spaces (like the ones after a sentence) would be made larger or smaller to keep in line with special typesetting rules.
The concept of whitespace as a character didn't exist before computers, where it was needed to keep words apart.
That's the part I don't understand, since it appears the ones getting bullied may also be incapable of learning better.
You can get over being bullied. It just takes a lot of work. If you're bullied hard enough to be damaged, you will eventually understand you have a problem. When you finally search for help, you will notice there are dozens of therapists who are trained to deal with your situation.
On the other hand, bullies do not have a reason to change. They get a job and continue to harass the weaker employees around them.
Belgium has an opt-out system. You can register on the site and then you won't receive any phone books anymore. (I just filled out the form, thanks to this article.)
I can't remember when I last used a full phone book: they're too large to find anything.
There is also a local business guide for each town. That one is small enough to be used, and it's useful whenever you need any service in your neighborhood (say, a plumber).
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... Struts is the most appaling MVC framework for web applications ever invented.
Well, it was the first MVC framework. Back in 2000, we were glad we weren't doing plain JSP/Servlet.
Later, we started using newer frameworks. Pretty soon, we noticed we were working several times faster than in Struts.
Didn't Bill Gates suggest this a long while back?
Yes, he did. About 10 years ago, IIRC. It was a stupid idea back then, and it still is now (even more so).
Back then, spam was mostly sent from hit-and-run accounts and open email relays. (So the spammers would be difficult to track down.)
Nowadays, they use botnets. Infected users would get charged for the spam flow. Some of them might not even notice the extra costs on their ISP bill.
I've seen progress bars that go backwards, but it usually indicates reversal of something that is done previously.
I've seen that once. The progress bar went up halfway, zipped back to the start and then went up again (this time to the end). There was another guy watching along with me. We both said "What the F--- did just happen?" at the same time.
We were writing a DVD image. I had to make several other images, but this never happened again.
I imagine it would be technically trivial to simply require that *both* numbers link to emergency services. It would be easy to do, and would make things a lot safer for visitors in either America or Europe who may only be familiar with one or the other.
AFAIK, phone switches already do that. I'm pretty sure I can dial 100 (emergency number for landlines over here) on my cell phone and ask to send an ambulance over. I think the old emergency number (900 - removed about 20 years ago) still works.
I wouldn't surprise me if 911 also works.
(Not tested - I prefer not to pay a fine for abusing those numbers.)
It's been a while since I've read anything about this, but my sense is that Cutler was quite upset with Ken Olsen who cut the project he was working on at the time.
AFAIK, this is correct.
Many have noted over the years that if you take the acronym VMS (an operating system that Cutler contributed to) and shift each letter plus one, you get WNT (Windows NT).
When asked about this, Dave Cutler supposedly said something to the effect of "it's about time somebody noticed". On the other hand, some other stories indicate that the "NT" name was used before Cutler joined the team.
Belgium has the Proton card. Also started in the 1990s. It has had some success, but it's in decline and will be phased out.
The chip is integrated into a regular debit card. It is also used to authorize ATM payments and online banking sessions. Most debit card terminals interface with the chip. The magnetic strip is no longer used.
They can (and do) track the balance of the Proton card: when I lost my card, I got a refund on my checking account.
I used to use NT back in the 3.1 and 3.5 days. It used to ship for i386, mips, ppc, and alpha systems. At version 4.0, mips and ppc were cut. I believe the alpha port survived until Windows 2000 (I had stopped paying attention by then).
IIRC, the Alpha port was canceled right before the Windows 2000 release.
Also by Donaldson: The Gap series.
It's a very harsh story (even more than the Covenant series). Many people dislike it for that reason.
Do you do that because as a developer you find Windows more productive for you?
In my experience, IDEs run roughly the same on Windows as on Linux. Not a lot of difference here.
The reasons for developing on Windows are mainly:
While there are plenty of non-Exchange mail servers, the number of non-Exchange mailbox servers in enterprise environments (>1000 users) is pretty small.
Don't forget Lotus Notes. IBM has some very large accounts using that.
OTOH, Groupwise is on the way out.
Why blame the tool? It's like blaming the web browser that the people used to access PHPMyAdmin to access the unsecured database.
AFAIK, PHPMyAdmin doesn't have its own security. The user/password is passed to the MySQL server. If they were able to create databases without a password, it would seem that MySQL was installed without a password for the mysql admin user. During installation, MySQL asks to set a root password. A long time ago, this was not the case.
This would seem that they had a very old MySQL setup and they never changed the password.
Back when I was in college (1995), I subscribed to a few LISTSERV mailing lists. Over the years, they moved to other platforms or disappeared.
I can't even remember which lists.
Indeed... I am currently living in Belgium and did not know that there was an ISP DNS block to the pirate bay (I just checked again and it worked)... coincidentally I am using the google DNS:es. It seems like a rather toothless way of blocking access to a specific site.
Also from Belgium, using the regular ISP DNS.
No problem accessing thepiratebay.com. www.thepiratebay.com forwards to depiraatbaai.be, which points to the same site.
So exact what problem do GC solve?
Manual memory management is tedious and error-prone. You need to add your destructor calls in all the right places, taking into account all possible program flows. Any mistake results in a memory leak or a crash.
It is not hard to deallocate what you have allocated.
Not if you have shared objects.
And yes, I am a Java developer since 10 years.
And you still don't understand the environment you're working on? That's sad.
We have had round-abouts here in Australia for well over 20 years and people still don't know how to use them properly. It is especially dangerous for pedestrians who cannot tell if a car is going to keep going around the round-about or if they are going to turn off.
I learned how in the Netherlands. Keep your inside blinker on until you're ready to exit the intersection, then switch to other one when you're ready to exit. That way everyone can clearly see what your intentions are.
In Belgium, you only have to use the blinker when exiting the roundabout, not when entering (makes sense: it's the only way to go).
If only drivers would learn to do that...
Most cyclists dislike roundabout though, because of the speed at which motorists proceed.
On a roundabout, cyclists are often in a car's "dead angle", where the driver can hardly see them.
Actually, the Pentium Pro was a GREAT chip, assuming you were running 32 bit software, and there was no reason to not run 32 bit software if you were going to run the Pentium Pro.
Also, the PPro is the basis for the Pentium II, III processors. It's one of Intel's most successful CPU designs. It was so good that Intel went back when they ran into problems with the Pentium 4. (Creating the Pentium M and Core 1 processors.)
there was a paper about combining a (crappy) machine translation with low-skilled workers, who natively understand the target language, to patch up the glaring flaws.
I'm working on a project where the translations are handled like that. We send all texts to an external company, and a few hours later, they send back the translation. This seems to work relatively well.
The next phase involves immediate translation without human intervention. I'm curious as to how that will work out.
Does this mean the prompt will be a GBP (£) sign instead of a dollar ($) ?
No, but the root prompt will be £ instead of #.
"All of the Garmin Nuvi GPS units I have had have a warning screen that shows every single time that it is turned on saying this." My TomTom doesn't do that... does that mean Garmin assumes their buyers are stupider or that TomTom isn't worried about being sued?
My TomTom showed me the disclaimer the first time I switched it on. They seem to assume the device is only used by a single person who is capable of remembering the warning.
I used to have an in-car GPS that made me click through the disclaimer each time I used it. So instead of pushing one button, I had to push GPS and then OK. (And then wait until the system was loaded.)
I suppose the big difference would be for ISPs and anyone else running DNS servers that redirect failed lookups to their own pages, this would no longer be useful as a test to see if your dns server will actually return NXDOMAIN for anything.
You can use a.com (or any other single letter) for that.
Trust me, I'm well aware of em-spaces, en-spaces, thin spaces, hair spaces, 1/3-em spaces, 1/4-em spaces, &c &c &c. The point is that you will just about never find a professionally-published book or magazine that uses double-spaces after a sentence.
I checked a couple of (English) books in my library, and all of them used single spaces after a sentence. Except for The TeX Book. (I didn't check other TeX-related books, but I guess they would do the same.) AFAIK, English is the only language that used to have the "double space after a sentence". To me (a non-native English reader), using 2 spaces in a monospaced text just looks weird. In a book, it doesn't distract that much.
In typesetting, there is no such thing as "two spaces". There is just space between words, and that space would be larger or smaller in order to justify the line. Some spaces (like the ones after a sentence) would be made larger or smaller to keep in line with special typesetting rules.
The concept of whitespace as a character didn't exist before computers, where it was needed to keep words apart.
yes, but bullies are too stupid to learn better.
That's kinda've the point.
That's the part I don't understand, since it appears the ones getting bullied may also be incapable of learning better.
You can get over being bullied. It just takes a lot of work. If you're bullied hard enough to be damaged, you will eventually understand you have a problem. When you finally search for help, you will notice there are dozens of therapists who are trained to deal with your situation.
On the other hand, bullies do not have a reason to change. They get a job and continue to harass the weaker employees around them.
Bullies don't grow up, they just grow older.
Belgium has an opt-out system. You can register on the site and then you won't receive any phone books anymore. (I just filled out the form, thanks to this article.)
I can't remember when I last used a full phone book: they're too large to find anything.
There is also a local business guide for each town. That one is small enough to be used, and it's useful whenever you need any service in your neighborhood (say, a plumber).
Is this really beer?
There's only one picture of what it looks like in a glass. No foam. So it's not beer.