I don't think anyone would stoop so low as to say they put out the WORST product out in the market.
well, ill say one thing. microsoft's windows me was definately one of the best operating systems around when it came to drawing white text on top of blue backgrounds.
funny, i was just wondering how id go about getting a job over there.
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if you're looking for reliability, this seems like a no-brainer to me. sata all the way. im not aware of an ata drive that even comes close to the 5 year warranty of wd's sata drives.
i agree that putty is probably the best *free* terinal emulator for windows, but there's a lot to be said for some of the commercial emulators; specifically vandyke's securecrt.
that graph is exactly why i think everyone here with their own website/blog/whatever should pick a firefox button and put it where everyone will see it. firefox is probably the best browser in the world right now, but what good is it if nobody knows about it?
what we need is an awareness campaign. remember those 'best viewed with' buttons from the mid nineties? we need to bring those back. even if its not true that your site works better with some particular browser, something like this would at least spread awareness of the alternatives out there.
these days, with computers as fast as they are, id argue that the benefit of maintainability far outweighs the cost of the additional overhead for all but the very largest sites. and most modern template engines have some sort of caching mechanism anyway.
of course the best test is to run some benchmarks for your specific application, but in general, i dont know why anyone would choose NOT to use a template engine.
i didnt know there was anything special i needed to do to upgrade. with gentoo, all i did was type 'emerge development sources' and recompile as usual.
this is great first step, but it wont stop spam. it will only prevent spammers from spoofing their email addresses, etc. what good is that when the spammer lives in a country that has no laws against spam?
Though I fear what will happen once the DRM shit comes. "This page requires Internet Explorer 7.0 with Enhanced Content Security Pack(TM) running on a Trusted Computing System(TM). Please upgrade to take full advantage of our site."
dont forget, implementing something this extreme would be bad for microsoft too, because it would be incompatible with their older products. considering the number of windows 95/98 machines still around today, i'm not really worried.
But, he said, the good news is that the technique to discover these trigger words is very time consuming.
this is what's important here. the spam filters dont have to be perfect. they just have to be good enough to make spamming unprofitable, or at least a big enough pain in the ass that it isnt worth the effort anymore.
well, maybe we should try to fix that. dont forget, netscape was once the dominant browser, and it was never came preinstalled with windows. this leads me to believe that the typical user will install a new browser if they have a compelling reason to do so. i suspect the problem is that the typical user just isnt aware of the alternatives. we need to change that. remember a few years ago how every site had a little "best viewed with x" button in the corner? what ever happened to that? maybe we should consider using these again, simply to promote some of the lesser known, but far superior alternatives.
"A co-worker was showing me some of the usage stats for a clients exchange server: its averaging 630 users, and 300,000 emails per day, for the last 4 days"
im slightly off topic here, but wow. thats scary. i dont know about anyone else, but i wouldnt feel comfortable with my company's exchange server directly connected to the internet like that. we have a content-filtering smtp relay in our dmz to take the brunt of crap like this. we block email with potentially dangerous attachments and viruses before they even get to our internal network.
what's the motive behind this reward? sco will never make this money back, seeing as dont have much of a business anymore. unless, of course, you consider suing people a business... oh yeah, this is america.
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I don't think anyone would stoop so low as to say they put out the WORST product out in the market.
well, ill say one thing. microsoft's windows me was definately one of the best operating systems around when it came to drawing white text on top of blue backgrounds.
thats not too bad of a mess. id say all you need are:
1.) a small patch panel
2.) tie wraps
funny, i was just wondering how id go about getting a job over there.
if you're looking for reliability, this seems like a no-brainer to me. sata all the way. im not aware of an ata drive that even comes close to the 5 year warranty of wd's sata drives.
i agree that putty is probably the best *free* terinal emulator for windows, but there's a lot to be said for some of the commercial emulators; specifically vandyke's securecrt.
that graph is exactly why i think everyone here with their own website/blog/whatever should pick a firefox button and put it where everyone will see it. firefox is probably the best browser in the world right now, but what good is it if nobody knows about it?
what we need is an awareness campaign. remember those 'best viewed with' buttons from the mid nineties? we need to bring those back. even if its not true that your site works better with some particular browser, something like this would at least spread awareness of the alternatives out there.
"It's up to us."
not if you have a manager to answer to!these days, with computers as fast as they are, id argue that the benefit of maintainability far outweighs the cost of the additional overhead for all but the very largest sites. and most modern template engines have some sort of caching mechanism anyway.
of course the best test is to run some benchmarks for your specific application, but in general, i dont know why anyone would choose NOT to use a template engine.
not true. ms users always have the option of shelling out a few hundred bucks for an upgrade. =)
'everybody was saying, retailers are going to collect information about what you buy. And none of that happened.'
it did happen. supermarkets are currently printing out coupons on the back of your reciept, based on your previous purchases.
the window is (unsurprisingly) suppressed with mozilla's built-in popup blocking.
any word on when this technology will be available in wearable computers?
this is nothing new. ive had windows reloaded at least once a year since 1995.
"If you want more secure software, upgrade."
does anyone know of any other companies that actively promote their new products by badmouthing their old products?
this is the type of thing that keeps me from taking anything they say seriously.
i think the genkernel tool makes you do this for some reason. i didnt need these additional kernel options on 2.6 either.
oops, that should be 'emerge development-sources'
i didnt know there was anything special i needed to do to upgrade. with gentoo, all i did was type 'emerge development sources' and recompile as usual.
this is great first step, but it wont stop spam. it will only prevent spammers from spoofing their email addresses, etc. what good is that when the spammer lives in a country that has no laws against spam?
Though I fear what will happen once the DRM shit comes. "This page requires Internet Explorer 7.0 with Enhanced Content Security Pack(TM) running on a Trusted Computing System(TM). Please upgrade to take full advantage of our site."
dont forget, implementing something this extreme would be bad for microsoft too, because it would be incompatible with their older products. considering the number of windows 95/98 machines still around today, i'm not really worried.
But, he said, the good news is that the technique to discover these trigger words is very time consuming.
this is what's important here. the spam filters dont have to be perfect. they just have to be good enough to make spamming unprofitable, or at least a big enough pain in the ass that it isnt worth the effort anymore.
"Mozilla is a far way from replacing I.E."
well, maybe we should try to fix that. dont forget, netscape was once the dominant browser, and it was never came preinstalled with windows. this leads me to believe that the typical user will install a new browser if they have a compelling reason to do so. i suspect the problem is that the typical user just isnt aware of the alternatives. we need to change that. remember a few years ago how every site had a little "best viewed with x" button in the corner? what ever happened to that? maybe we should consider using these again, simply to promote some of the lesser known, but far superior alternatives.
try fu-fme.
"A co-worker was showing me some of the usage stats for a clients exchange server: its averaging 630 users, and 300,000 emails per day, for the last 4 days"
im slightly off topic here, but wow. thats scary. i dont know about anyone else, but i wouldnt feel comfortable with my company's exchange server directly connected to the internet like that. we have a content-filtering smtp relay in our dmz to take the brunt of crap like this. we block email with potentially dangerous attachments and viruses before they even get to our internal network.
what's the motive behind this reward? sco will never make this money back, seeing as dont have much of a business anymore. unless, of course, you consider suing people a business... oh yeah, this is america.
"Second, it can perform a denial-of-service against www.sco.com"
for once, im sorry that my linux box isnt affected. =)