I don't know how to make a program crash free. What I do know is - if you have enough logging in your application, when your program does crash, you can quickly look at the logs and find the exact class/method that cause the fault and fix it.
Break down the big project into small components. Have your programmers write unit test for each components and also add instrumentation/logging code, with an option to turn on/off the logging.
Many people are suggesting that you move to the managed language, even when the OP has stated that it is not really an option. I think moving to managed language can help with stability but it can't eliminate all the crahses or memory leakes. You can still have things like null pointer exceptions or an ever growing array hogging lots of memory.
By putting statements such as "SpyMon can not be used in 'anti-spyware research'", isn't the spyware firm basically admitting that they are distributing spyware? Why would a legal, non-dodgy software company put such a clause in their EULA? I think if the judge rules in favour of the spyware company (unlikely), this will basically give green light to all other spyware and scumware vendors.
Looks like "A Tech Strategist within Microsoft" is talking about recommended dream machine instead of minimum requirements.
There is no way 256MB video RAM is going to be minimum. There are going to be a lot of computers with less than 256MB wanting to upgrade to Vista. Also think about laptops. How many laptops are going to have 256MB video RAM. Apple has 3D accelerated desktop now and they don't seem to need 256MB VRAM. And how many of Dell PCs are going to have "integrated 256MB Intel Extreme graphics".
512MB or even 1GB system RAM is OK again 2GB for the 64bit edition doesn't make sense. The current generation 64bit system perform about the same or just below the 32bit system on the same hardware. 64bit doesn't mean double the RAM requirements of 32bit.
SATA and AGP? Why would the OS require a specific type of hardware interface. There is hardly any noticable difference between SATA1 150 and Ultra ATA 133. Same with PCIe and AGP. The next gen SATA and PCIe devices may change this but frankly I don't see them becoming mainstream by the time Vista ships.
The alpha of Vista runs happily on current generation hardware. At a recent Tech-Ed session we were told that if you have a decent current gen graphics card Vista will actually run faster because the screen rendering has now been moved to the GPU. The entire article look like BS to me.
(b) AUTOMATIC FEEDBACK. You agree that Netscape may periodically query your computer system, without additional notice to you, for information relating to your use of the Beta Browser, including, for example, information relating to the frequency of your use
(c) BROWSER ID. During the beta testing, your software will contain a specific dentification number for the purpose of tracking the number of unique instances of the Beta Browser being used by our testers.
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I am glad I didn't buy this game.
Having to authenticate online even to play single player game is just ridiculous. The anti-piracy "scheme" Value has come up with is anti-customer. I hope Valve gets enough flak from this outage.
The only way to discourage these type of copy-protection is not to buy it in the first place. Having said that I am sure that the people who are angry right now will be first in the line when Half-Life 3 comes out with a "Retina Scan" requirement.
Next time vote with your dollars. Don't buy anti-customer crap.
I just ran the updates on an XP machine. It claimed that there was vulnerable GDI code on the machine and I should go to the office update page. Guess what: the office update page said there were no updates. So, apparanetly the system is vulnerable, but there is no way to fix it. Wonderful!
If tool finds that you have office installed then it will ask you to goto the office update site. It can't determine wether the version of office you have is vulnerable or not, only the office update site can do that.
What does the GDI+ Detection tool do?
The GDI+ Detection tool scans your system for non-operating system products that are known to contain the vulnerable component. It then directs consumers to the appropriate locations for downloading an update to address the vulnerability.
Will the GDI+ Detection tool tell me if my system is at risk from this vulnerability?
No. The tool is only designed to scan the system and detect for certain installed products that are known to contain the vulnerable component. The tool is not able to determine if these products have already been updated to use a secure version of the affected component.
Why do you assume everyone who connects to the Internet uses broadband. What about people who still use dial-up to connect to the Internet? A router is not going to help them.
I just block everything that isn't a document of some sort. Haven't had any problems at my company since
Because of system admins like you sending files through email is becoming more and more difficult for us developers. You know, some people do need to send and receive binary executable and non-executable files through email.
Few months back I sent an important dll as an email attachment to one developer who works for a different company. He replied to me saying that their email security gateway had blocked the email. So I sent the dll again, zipped this time. Again the attachment was blocked. Their security software even scanned zip files! It was really frustrating trying to send an important file which is not even executable by itself, just because the system admin thought it was good idea to block the files he/she thought were unsafe.
The real solution would be to install a good virus scanner for the email server and set it to update its definitions every hour or so.
These days I think the virus writers are just people who assemble a virus by collecting scripts and code from the Internet. Also the viruses they come up with do very little or no actual damage to the host system, instead they just "Propagate". If you are infected, delete a few files, remove a couple of registry entries and thats it. It has been a long time since I saw a virus with some real payload.
Virus writers used to be much more creative back in the DOS days. If you are somewhat older you might remember Stoned, Die-Hard, Natas, One-half, etc. Each had its nasty little payload, stealth techniques and difficult to disinfect.
The link to the Web site provided in the e-mail message leads to a server in Karachi, Pakistan, CNET News.com has discovered. Moreover, the link is formatted to take advantage of an Internet Explorer flaw that allows an attacker to hide the true destination of the link; in this case, the address bar in Internet Explorer displays "www.fdic.gov," while the actual Web site is at a different address in Pakistan.
India and Pakistan are two different countries, India is not even mentioned in the article. Who modded this funny?
Why dosen't NASA sell the Hubble telescope to some other country? Since they don't paln to service it anymore. If they find a buyer they might get some much needed money and the other country might be able to squeeze a few more years out of it before its dead.
By now any serious downloader would have downloaded his/her favorite songs and collected a few GBs. And maybe the new music is just not worth downloading. It would have been interesting to see if the decrease in file-sharing resulted in any increase in CD sales but the CD sales data is missing from the
study.
It may be working but these tactics must be costing RIIA some money and the increase in revenue from CD sales may be hard to come.
NZ Herald has an article
about this, from the article...
Today Antarctica New Zealand told NZPA no one knew Mr Johanson was coming and he had done nothing about contingency plans for refuelling or emergency plans, including search and rescue had he been forced down.
While the nvidia article is a little old, there is an interesting article about a new company called 'XGI', which was formed when SiS spun off its graphics division Xabre. According to THG cards based on XGI chips could arrive within one or two months and their top model could retail for a good $100-200 less than the flagship models of NVIDIA or ATi. The article includes a review of the prototype card called 'Volari Duo V8 Ultra' based on the XGI chip.
Right at the end of the article you will notice that the users will have an option to turn off the DRM...
Phoenix said the DRM-enabled CME was not part of Microsoft's NGSCB, but that the technology was complementary. The CME would allow PC makers to embed digital rights management directly into the hardware, though they would have the option of allowing users to turn it off.
If VeriSign were to be revoked their registrar status, ICANN would stand to lose millions.
Two things:
1. Why does the ICANN need to make millions?
2. Even if they wanted to make money I am sure there are many companies who will provide the same service that VeriSign provides without the nasty sitefinder.
I am not sure if the new look is good or bad but one positive is that the new site looks exactly _same_ in mozilla under both Linux and Windows. Previously under Linux I either used to get fonts too large or too small.
Every time a new mass mailing worm comes out all the antivirus vendors issue updates to their virus definitions. This stops _that_ particular virus from infecting a machine or spreading further. A better approch would be to monitor socket connections on port 25, I think Norton antivirus already does that, aren't the other AVs already doing this or the people getting infected simply not running a antivirus scanner at all? In any case the anuvirus vendors need to figure out a different way of dealing with these pests.
SCHUMER, CHRISTIAN COALITION TEAM
UP TO CRACK DOWN ON EMAIL SPAM PORNOGRAPHY
Christian Coalition endorses Schumer bill that would for the first
time impose tough criminal and civil penalties on spammers; New law would
create no-spam registry like highly-effective do-not-call registries that
have stopped telemarketers
Political odd couple find common ground protecting children from
obscene emails
Pornographic pictures appear in 1 out of every 5 spams; 1 in 5 kids
are sexually solicited on the Internet; and 1 in 4 had an unwanted exposure
to obscene pictures
US Senator Charles Schumer and Christian Coalition President Roberta
Combs announced today that the Christian Coalition is endorsing Schumer's
Stop Pornography and Abusive Marketing Act (The SPAM Act), legislation
aimed at cracking down on pornographic email spam that is sent to children.
Internet and email use among children has skyrocketed over the last few
years, with America Online and MSN reporting millions of child users.
The avalanche of pornography being sent to kids by spammers makes
checking email on par with watching an X-rated movie. Parents need to
be able to keep offensive material out of the family room and I'm working
with the Christian Coalition to do just that, Schumer said. The
bottom line is that America's children have been under attack for a long
time from violent TV shows, racy music videos, and now pornographic
spam. The v-chip gave parents control of the TV. My SPAM Act will give
them control over the computer.
I stand side-by-side with Senator Schumer in the fight against
pornographic email, Combs said. Parents need the ability to
keep their children from being subjected to lewd material and Schumers
legislation will do just that. I am proud to stand with Chuck on this
issue and we will continue to work together until this bill is law.
Purveyors of spam have exploited the popularity of the Internet and e-mail
to gain access to millions of consumers from all sectors of the population,
advertising everything from herbal remedies to get-rich-quick schemes
to adult web sites. The traffic in explicit images is particularly acute
according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which reports that pornographic
pictures appear in almost one out of every five emails that spammers use
to advertise adult web sites. Many of these explicit images reach the
in-boxes of millions of young e-mail users.
In a June 2003 survey by the California-based Internet security firm Symantec,
47% of children reported receiving junk email with links to pornographic
web sites. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children, one in five kids between the ages of 10 and 17 are sexually
solicited on the Internet, and one in four had an unwanted exposure to
pictures of naked people or people having sex but only 40% of
these children told a parent.
According to a 2001 Department of Commerce study, 75 percent of 14-17
year olds and 65 percent of 10-13 year olds use the Internet. The same
survey also found that forty-five percent of the population now uses email,
up from 35 percent in 2000, including millions of children. As of November
2002, America Online had 16 million screen names limited by parental controls
while MSN, the operator of the popular free e-mail site www.hotmail.com,
had an estimated 3.6 million subscribers under the age of 18.
Schumer and Combs said that the implications of these studies are disturbing:
parents are not only powerless to prevent such imagery from being sent
to their childrens in-boxes, they also often d
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I don't know how to make a program crash free. What I do know is - if you have enough logging in your application, when your program does crash, you can quickly look at the logs and find the exact class/method that cause the fault and fix it.
Break down the big project into small components. Have your programmers write unit test for each components and also add instrumentation/logging code, with an option to turn on/off the logging.
Many people are suggesting that you move to the managed language, even when the OP has stated that it is not really an option. I think moving to managed language can help with stability but it can't eliminate all the crahses or memory leakes. You can still have things like null pointer exceptions or an ever growing array hogging lots of memory.
By putting statements such as "SpyMon can not be used in 'anti-spyware research'", isn't the spyware firm basically admitting that they are distributing spyware? Why would a legal, non-dodgy software company put such a clause in their EULA? I think if the judge rules in favour of the spyware company (unlikely), this will basically give green light to all other spyware and scumware vendors.
Looks like "A Tech Strategist within Microsoft" is talking about recommended dream machine instead of minimum requirements.
There is no way 256MB video RAM is going to be minimum. There are going to be a lot of computers with less than 256MB wanting to upgrade to Vista. Also think about laptops. How many laptops are going to have 256MB video RAM. Apple has 3D accelerated desktop now and they don't seem to need 256MB VRAM. And how many of Dell PCs are going to have "integrated 256MB Intel Extreme graphics".
512MB or even 1GB system RAM is OK again 2GB for the 64bit edition doesn't make sense. The current generation 64bit system perform about the same or just below the 32bit system on the same hardware. 64bit doesn't mean double the RAM requirements of 32bit.
SATA and AGP? Why would the OS require a specific type of hardware interface. There is hardly any noticable difference between SATA1 150 and Ultra ATA 133. Same with PCIe and AGP. The next gen SATA and PCIe devices may change this but frankly I don't see them becoming mainstream by the time Vista ships.
The alpha of Vista runs happily on current generation hardware. At a recent Tech-Ed session we were told that if you have a decent current gen graphics card Vista will actually run faster because the screen rendering has now been moved to the GPU. The entire article look like BS to me.
How can something that you have to compile and configure yourself be a spyware?
I am glad I didn't buy this game.
Having to authenticate online even to play single player game is just ridiculous. The anti-piracy "scheme" Value has come up with is anti-customer. I hope Valve gets enough flak from this outage.
The only way to discourage these type of copy-protection is not to buy it in the first place. Having said that I am sure that the people who are angry right now will be first in the line when Half-Life 3 comes out with a "Retina Scan" requirement.
Next time vote with your dollars. Don't buy anti-customer crap.
From the MS security bulletin...
What does the GDI+ Detection tool do?
The GDI+ Detection tool scans your system for non-operating system products that are known to contain the vulnerable component. It then directs consumers to the appropriate locations for downloading an update to address the vulnerability.
Will the GDI+ Detection tool tell me if my system is at risk from this vulnerability?
No. The tool is only designed to scan the system and detect for certain installed products that are known to contain the vulnerable component. The tool is not able to determine if these products have already been updated to use a secure version of the affected component.
Why do you assume everyone who connects to the Internet uses broadband. What about people who still use dial-up to connect to the Internet? A router is not going to help them.
Few months back I sent an important dll as an email attachment to one developer who works for a different company. He replied to me saying that their email security gateway had blocked the email. So I sent the dll again, zipped this time. Again the attachment was blocked. Their security software even scanned zip files! It was really frustrating trying to send an important file which is not even executable by itself, just because the system admin thought it was good idea to block the files he/she thought were unsafe.
The real solution would be to install a good virus scanner for the email server and set it to update its definitions every hour or so.
A quick whois shows that gmail.com is indeed registered under Google Inc.
The link in the press release http://gmail.google.com doesn't work, but http://gmail.com works. Also there is a Gmail FAQ page.
The site linked in the article (bluesnews) dosen't list all the mirrors, here is the real mirror list from Atari's web site...
These days I think the virus writers are just people who assemble a virus by collecting scripts and code from the Internet. Also the viruses they come up with do very little or no actual damage to the host system, instead they just "Propagate". If you are infected, delete a few files, remove a couple of registry entries and thats it. It has been a long time since I saw a virus with some real payload.
Virus writers used to be much more creative back in the DOS days. If you are somewhat older you might remember Stoned, Die-Hard, Natas, One-half, etc. Each had its nasty little payload, stealth techniques and difficult to disinfect.
India and Pakistan are two different countries, India is not even mentioned in the article. Who modded this funny?
Why dosen't NASA sell the Hubble telescope to some other country? Since they don't paln to service it anymore. If they find a buyer they might get some much needed money and the other country might be able to squeeze a few more years out of it before its dead.
By now any serious downloader would have downloaded his/her favorite songs and collected a few GBs. And maybe the new music is just not worth downloading. It would have been interesting to see if the decrease in file-sharing resulted in any increase in CD sales but the CD sales data is missing from the study.
It may be working but these tactics must be costing RIIA some money and the increase in revenue from CD sales may be hard to come.
While the nvidia article is a little old, there is an interesting article about a new company called 'XGI', which was formed when SiS spun off its graphics division Xabre. According to THG cards based on XGI chips could arrive within one or two months and their top model could retail for a good $100-200 less than the flagship models of NVIDIA or ATi. The article includes a review of the prototype card called 'Volari Duo V8 Ultra' based on the XGI chip.
Right at the end of the article you will notice that the users will have an option to turn off the DRM...
Two things:
1. Why does the ICANN need to make millions?
2. Even if they wanted to make money I am sure there are many companies who will provide the same service that VeriSign provides without the nasty sitefinder.
I am not sure if the new look is good or bad but one positive is that the new site looks exactly _same_ in mozilla under both Linux and Windows. Previously under Linux I either used to get fonts too large or too small.
The author of the article seems to use "Internet Free Speech" really well, the article is *32* pages long.
I don't know about others but I don't have the money or time to be so serious (19-inch rack, etc.!!!) about my home network.
Every time a new mass mailing worm comes out all the antivirus vendors issue updates to their virus definitions. This stops _that_ particular virus from infecting a machine or spreading further. A better approch would be to monitor socket connections on port 25, I think Norton antivirus already does that, aren't the other AVs already doing this or the people getting infected simply not running a antivirus scanner at all? In any case the anuvirus vendors need to figure out a different way of dealing with these pests.
Christian Coalition endorses Schumer bill that would for the first time impose tough criminal and civil penalties on spammers; New law would create no-spam registry like highly-effective do-not-call registries that have stopped telemarketers
Political odd couple find common ground protecting children from obscene emails
Pornographic pictures appear in 1 out of every 5 spams; 1 in 5 kids are sexually solicited on the Internet; and 1 in 4 had an unwanted exposure to obscene pictures
US Senator Charles Schumer and Christian Coalition President Roberta Combs announced today that the Christian Coalition is endorsing Schumer's Stop Pornography and Abusive Marketing Act (The SPAM Act), legislation aimed at cracking down on pornographic email spam that is sent to children. Internet and email use among children has skyrocketed over the last few years, with America Online and MSN reporting millions of child users.
The avalanche of pornography being sent to kids by spammers makes checking email on par with watching an X-rated movie. Parents need to be able to keep offensive material out of the family room and I'm working with the Christian Coalition to do just that, Schumer said. The bottom line is that America's children have been under attack for a long time from violent TV shows, racy music videos, and now pornographic spam. The v-chip gave parents control of the TV. My SPAM Act will give them control over the computer.
I stand side-by-side with Senator Schumer in the fight against pornographic email, Combs said. Parents need the ability to keep their children from being subjected to lewd material and Schumers legislation will do just that. I am proud to stand with Chuck on this issue and we will continue to work together until this bill is law.
Purveyors of spam have exploited the popularity of the Internet and e-mail to gain access to millions of consumers from all sectors of the population, advertising everything from herbal remedies to get-rich-quick schemes to adult web sites. The traffic in explicit images is particularly acute according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which reports that pornographic pictures appear in almost one out of every five emails that spammers use to advertise adult web sites. Many of these explicit images reach the in-boxes of millions of young e-mail users.
In a June 2003 survey by the California-based Internet security firm Symantec, 47% of children reported receiving junk email with links to pornographic web sites. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, one in five kids between the ages of 10 and 17 are sexually solicited on the Internet, and one in four had an unwanted exposure to pictures of naked people or people having sex but only 40% of these children told a parent.
According to a 2001 Department of Commerce study, 75 percent of 14-17 year olds and 65 percent of 10-13 year olds use the Internet. The same survey also found that forty-five percent of the population now uses email, up from 35 percent in 2000, including millions of children. As of November 2002, America Online had 16 million screen names limited by parental controls while MSN, the operator of the popular free e-mail site www.hotmail.com, had an estimated 3.6 million subscribers under the age of 18.
Schumer and Combs said that the implications of these studies are disturbing: parents are not only powerless to prevent such imagery from being sent to their childrens in-boxes, they also often d
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