yes I used to wonder why that was. Not-blocking Slashdot is very typical for all kinds of sensitive sites I worked at: defence contractors, three-letter agencies, etc. Then I realized: security folks and sysadmins have to read something too.
I dont know how much a9 is a competitor for Google (never used it and dont know anyone who had), but typically if one company is a technology leader for technology X and the other one is trying to catch up, it is the other one who will try to lure the people from the first one.
One would think that search is Google's core competetency so there is little in getting the other guy to learn from him and his ways.
Mesh network. Pole to pole, customer to customer. Setting it up will be much easier than it seems once you remove the complex billing system out of the equation.
It is all about designing stuff without getting yourself cornered - always have a way out
On Soyuz, if booster fails, there is a small escape rocket that is capable to carry the craft up and away far enough to clear the explosion (happened twice I believe)
And if navigation, etc. fails during the descent, the shape and mass of the lander is just so it is going to eventually perform a ballistic reentry. The crew would have to endure much higher than normal G forces but likely to be alive (happened several times).
Shuttle has very few safety measures and adding them would further reduce the value of the program.
98% reliability seems to be a constant for all of the rocket-based contraptions, no matter who builds them. It just a matter of turning odds in your favour.
Is there a way for a java app to trap keypresses when the java app is out of focus, without using a native interface?
Maybe by just pretending to lose focus and instead establishing a giant transperent window covering desktop that would capture and rebroadcast all the keyboard and mouse events?
At big big US government agency they block jakarta.apache.org because it is a "hacker tools site". Ironically the majority of their own stuff runs on Tomcat, et al.
Will GPS still work if the receiver is in low earth orbit? Say 60 to 100 miles up? Would it be reliable as far as the 3d positioning?
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Why "flamebait"? The Man definitely has a point, like or not.
Just recently I saw the project that was basically just a few web pages and it was realized as a tasty soup of custom MVC framework, JSPs, JSP tag libs, Velocity (by itself and (horror) inside taglibs), Spring and XML/XSLT thrown in for a good measure.
I recently interviewed several people in India for senior (US equivalent of 100K+) position with outsourcing department of big big US company. Those people were ok but they were JUNIOR (in experience, soft skills, everything). However, overseas headhunter warned the company that even these people will not be available for long and it is almost impossible to find more.
In my opinion (14 years of consulting), the India craze did cause a significant dip in rates for US people but even couple years ago we already were scratching the bottom of the barrel. I think the shortage of programmers is a global thing and caused by primitive immature tools and processes and outsourcing is not a magic bullet. My typical client cannot coordinate people across the room let alone across the ocean.
You are absolutely right on this. I participated in developing of a competing product (see my sig, they are good people and deserve a plug) and I remember that our spidering tools were getting stuff that definitely noone wanted to see public, like list of passwords from a backup CD, metadata (author, etc) from Office docs, unencrypted credit cards from databases, etc.
The solution is to educate people that "shared drive" is indeed shared and provide a separate network share for backups, etc, and make sure that share is not configured to be searchable.
Finally someone stated this.
I am in relationships with number of small biz owners selling stuff on the net. Good stuff not shady stuff. The pattern has emerged over last few years: they pay Google (AdWords), clicks translate to hits, hits translate to leads, leads translate to sales. Without AdWords they dont get enough traffic (and sales) to pay the bills. The web is a huge thing.
Essentially we got to the point when people are paying Google for traffic coming to their sites. How dangerous is that? This is monopoly of sort Microsoft never dreamed of.
I always said - just like in the old times, the convicts and dissidents should lead the colonization.
Maybe *IAAs can send all those illegal downloaders in lieu of prison term;-)
Inside that pile of tools - EnterFind Search Appliance. Disclaimer: I participated in its development and plug them in my sig.
More features than Google one and cheaper too. Searches network shares, FTP and web sites and now databases and soon archived CDs/DVDs.
Actually it goes further than that.
The original OAS was pure-Oracle creation (circa 98-99) and was _really_ bad.
The second generation was based on Apache and Apache Jserv which was ok but late to the party and Jserv was already sunsetting then.
Orion based OC4J is the third incarnation.
I remember working at place where they confiscated floppies in the lobby but I (outside contractor) was carrying back and forth my laptop with some 10 million records on it. A lot of people are issued a laptop when they dont really need it.
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yes I used to wonder why that was. Not-blocking Slashdot is very typical for all kinds of sensitive sites I worked at: defence contractors, three-letter agencies, etc. Then I realized: security folks and sysadmins have to read something too.
Jboss is under LGPL. So from the free-as-in-freedom point of view it is much more "community controlled" than others mentioned.
One would think that search is Google's core competetency so there is little in getting the other guy to learn from him and his ways.
Mesh network. Pole to pole, customer to customer. Setting it up will be much easier than it seems once you remove the complex billing system out of the equation.
On Soyuz, if booster fails, there is a small escape rocket that is capable to carry the craft up and away far enough to clear the explosion (happened twice I believe)
And if navigation, etc. fails during the descent, the shape and mass of the lander is just so it is going to eventually perform a ballistic reentry. The crew would have to endure much higher than normal G forces but likely to be alive (happened several times).
Shuttle has very few safety measures and adding them would further reduce the value of the program.
98% reliability seems to be a constant for all of the rocket-based contraptions, no matter who builds them. It just a matter of turning odds in your favour.
another book from Developer-to-Developer series?
Maybe by just pretending to lose focus and instead establishing a giant transperent window covering desktop that would capture and rebroadcast all the keyboard and mouse events?
At big big US government agency they block jakarta.apache.org because it is a "hacker tools site". Ironically the majority of their own stuff runs on Tomcat, et al.
Will GPS still work if the receiver is in low earth orbit? Say 60 to 100 miles up? Would it be reliable as far as the 3d positioning?
Just recently I saw the project that was basically just a few web pages and it was realized as a tasty soup of custom MVC framework, JSPs, JSP tag libs, Velocity (by itself and (horror) inside taglibs), Spring and XML/XSLT thrown in for a good measure.
Don't give people ideas - ads can be that way too.
Welcome to Kansas - Evolution stops here.
(Disclaimer: I too beleive that evolution is just a theory)
In my opinion (14 years of consulting), the India craze did cause a significant dip in rates for US people but even couple years ago we already were scratching the bottom of the barrel. I think the shortage of programmers is a global thing and caused by primitive immature tools and processes and outsourcing is not a magic bullet. My typical client cannot coordinate people across the room let alone across the ocean.
Yes but his lawn is top-notch ;-)
Like, say, http://www.digg.com/spy ?
Would not a rootkit, by definition, override what can be seen via "normal" system calls and netstat will report nothing of interest?
The solution is to educate people that "shared drive" is indeed shared and provide a separate network share for backups, etc, and make sure that share is not configured to be searchable.
Finally someone stated this.
I am in relationships with number of small biz owners selling stuff on the net. Good stuff not shady stuff. The pattern has emerged over last few years: they pay Google (AdWords), clicks translate to hits, hits translate to leads, leads translate to sales. Without AdWords they dont get enough traffic (and sales) to pay the bills. The web is a huge thing.
Essentially we got to the point when people are paying Google for traffic coming to their sites. How dangerous is that? This is monopoly of sort Microsoft never dreamed of.
yes, but some code reviews I have seen were very much like that ;-)
I always said - just like in the old times, the convicts and dissidents should lead the colonization. Maybe *IAAs can send all those illegal downloaders in lieu of prison term ;-)
Especially since his wealth came from Thawte ;-)
Inside that pile of tools - EnterFind Search Appliance. Disclaimer: I participated in its development and plug them in my sig.
More features than Google one and cheaper too. Searches network shares, FTP and web sites and now databases and soon archived CDs/DVDs.
JBOSS still IS free. And thanks to the real OSS license will remain so.
Actually it goes further than that.
The original OAS was pure-Oracle creation (circa 98-99) and was _really_ bad.
The second generation was based on Apache and Apache Jserv which was ok but late to the party and Jserv was already sunsetting then.
Orion based OC4J is the third incarnation.
I remember working at place where they confiscated floppies in the lobby but I (outside contractor) was carrying back and forth my laptop with some 10 million records on it. A lot of people are issued a laptop when they dont really need it.