many users haven't even bothered to change the default Lotus password
I know it sounds bad for a sysadmin but try to think their way: why should they secure it? Maybe they don't care about the security of the system. That is your job.
My apologies for the above post, I actually thought there is some code behind this. Actually all they say is fetch xml from the server using Javascript and then still using Javascript update the web page using the fetched XML document. The update is not done by some fancy XSL transformation but by writing code that goes up and down the parsed tree of the XML.
Several people tried this in the past and many seemed to conclude its more efficient to just fetch dynamically generated Javascript and execute it directly.
Speed issues aside, the web browser will let you make an application that looks a bit more like a native one than regular web pages but never just like a native one.
One last observation: their site does not seem to use this concept.
At least give the program a somewhat descriptive name, ie Office, Internet Explorer, TurboTax, NotePad, Photoshop, etc...
These names don't mean much if your native language is not English. You just learn to associate them with the software.
Sometimes the same goes for icons. I still remember this funny icon in early Windows that was supposed to simbolize mail. Later on I saw the real object in a movie, it was an American mailbox.
Now I don't know if the person that named Internet Explorer thought of an analogy of a risky trip were you are continuously in danger of being attacked and suffering from various infectious diseases but I can say the application seems to live up to its name.
If someone distributed the Linux kernel under conditions that do not meet the GPL, what would you be saying then?
You are turning things around. This guy is being accused of distributing something. Breaking the GPL would mean not distributing something. You can easily undo the wrong to the GPL by distributing the source.
So from a negative point of view the difference is between wrong you can easily repair and wrong you have no way of repairing. Apple is not asking this guy to straighten his ways, it's asking for a punishment. While I would no go as far as saying that one is about fear and one is about love the contrast is obvious.
I just came across this thread over on usenet where J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5 and Jeremiah, talks about the cancellation of Enterprise.
Only hours ago a Slashdot told me that Usenet is dying and now this?
For my peace of mind I searched on Google for Netcraft confirms Enterprise is cancelled and it's ok, I got lots of hits.
It looks like a flight booking site. I could not find any flights with it as it does not support flights that originate in Europe (including Russia), Africa, Asia, Australia and South America.
I think the music industry would prefer to place a socket of the back of your neck and feed you the content this way so that you can not pirate it. And not only music but also movies and holiday simulations and even a virtual world.
Gotta go, need to decide wich pill to take. Blue looks like a secure choice but red seems more interesting...
Dubito ergo cogito. I doubt therefore I think. Many of today's theories will be laughed at in a century or so. Progress is often achieved by those who do not bow to the current scientific dogma but try to see past it.
If someone does not have doubts that person does not think. American or not it makes no difference.
I remember Microsoft Bob used to log you in anyway if you failed your password more than three times. If that's not giving up passwords I don't know what is.
I've always been noted for my ability to work best under pressure
It depends on the amount of pressure. Think of a three hour exam that determines what the rest of your life is going to be and when in case of failure you will be miserable for as long as you live.
On the other hand working hard to make your boss rich is not pressure. Pressure comes from the inside not from the outside.
If it is described in the manual it's a feature. If the opposite is described in the manual it's a bug.
To make matters worse it took HP a week to reproduce it (they needed more than one physical disk to write to and they kept trying with two different logical volume on the same disk).
It sounds like you should have done more research prior to upgrading your OS.
Our test system did not have enough resources to make this bug obvious.
had a brand new patch emailed to me by the next morning
I suspect they already had the patch before you even reported the problem.
That's something that hasn't happened in the OSS world.
In open or closed source you're likely to get better support if you have a problem that is experienced by many other people. If you're the only one reporting it you're pretty much on your own. That's when OSS has an advantage. When I had trouble running Apache on AIX I just modified the source and moved on.
Furthermore, with the big brands, if you have a mysterious bug or kernel panic you get a number to call and somebody works on it 16 hours a day till the bug is fixed.
This is simply not true. Years ago when we upgraded HPUX the way memory pages were locked was changed. In the old version you could have more than one process read from a memory page, in the new one only one process could read. Our software ran much slower and we had serious problems. In spite of having an expensive support contract we got zero help. We were told this was a feature and not a bug. In the end we had to adjust our software and work around the OS bug by aligning all the shared memory buffers to page boundaries. How is that different from Windows?
Do you seriously think that someone without Unix background will dive into it for $3/hr?
Salaries this low are still paid in Eastern Europe, let alone the rest of the world.
do you think that some local "big cahunna" will trust the cheap worker more than a US company
Here you are right, they won't. One of the strong selling points will always be: we've been doing this for decades, your guys are just beginners. Ironically I know a case when local programmers were employed to do the job after the american programmers used all the budget and failed to produce anything.
I guess its mostly because american and european businesses have the same owners. Europe is approaching fast the stage of United States of Europe and I can already see in the future the United Euroatlantic States emerging.
I know it does not sound like much but I think a manual is what Mozilla really needs. Many users that switch from IE get to use Mozilla/Firefox the same way they used IE and not more. And there's much more to Mozilla than just tab browsing.
I still remember the day when I tried running two separate instances of Mozilla on the same Windows machine. Neither Google nor the forums helped. Luckily I can still read C++.
Open source should mean you can look into the source if you want to, not that you have to look into the source every time you try something non trivial.
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I know it sounds bad for a sysadmin but try to think their way: why should they secure it? Maybe they don't care about the security of the system. That is your job.
Several people tried this in the past and many seemed to conclude its more efficient to just fetch dynamically generated Javascript and execute it directly.
Speed issues aside, the web browser will let you make an application that looks a bit more like a native one than regular web pages but never just like a native one.
One last observation: their site does not seem to use this concept.
Does anyone know if their licence is GPL compatible?
These names don't mean much if your native language is not English. You just learn to associate them with the software.
Sometimes the same goes for icons. I still remember this funny icon in early Windows that was supposed to simbolize mail. Later on I saw the real object in a movie, it was an American mailbox.
Now I don't know if the person that named Internet Explorer thought of an analogy of a risky trip were you are continuously in danger of being attacked and suffering from various infectious diseases but I can say the application seems to live up to its name.
You are turning things around. This guy is being accused of distributing something. Breaking the GPL would mean not distributing something. You can easily undo the wrong to the GPL by distributing the source.
So from a negative point of view the difference is between wrong you can easily repair and wrong you have no way of repairing. Apple is not asking this guy to straighten his ways, it's asking for a punishment. While I would no go as far as saying that one is about fear and one is about love the contrast is obvious.
I think this proves once again that non-free commodity software is evil.
Maybe for people running Linux, for the ones of us still in the BSD realm it's going to be months before we get a native port if ever.
Only hours ago a Slashdot told me that Usenet is dying and now this?
For my peace of mind I searched on Google for Netcraft confirms Enterprise is cancelled and it's ok, I got lots of hits.
One counter-example: TNT. With a maximum allowed of one mistake it seems keep a pretty skilled user base.
It looks like a flight booking site. I could not find any flights with it as it does not support flights that originate in Europe (including Russia), Africa, Asia, Australia and South America.
Gotta go, need to decide wich pill to take. Blue looks like a secure choice but red seems more interesting ...
Dubito ergo cogito. I doubt therefore I think. Many of today's theories will be laughed at in a century or so. Progress is often achieved by those who do not bow to the current scientific dogma but try to see past it.
If someone does not have doubts that person does not think. American or not it makes no difference.
I remember Microsoft Bob used to log you in anyway if you failed your password more than three times. If that's not giving up passwords I don't know what is.
It does not matter any more if .NET is good or not, the general perception is that you should stay away from Microsoft.
It depends on the amount of pressure. Think of a three hour exam that determines what the rest of your life is going to be and when in case of failure you will be miserable for as long as you live.
On the other hand working hard to make your boss rich is not pressure. Pressure comes from the inside not from the outside.
I strongly disagree with that. Fiorina sounds like a flower shop.
If it is described in the manual it's a feature. If the opposite is described in the manual it's a bug. To make matters worse it took HP a week to reproduce it (they needed more than one physical disk to write to and they kept trying with two different logical volume on the same disk).
It sounds like you should have done more research prior to upgrading your OS.
Our test system did not have enough resources to make this bug obvious.
had a brand new patch emailed to me by the next morning
I suspect they already had the patch before you even reported the problem.
That's something that hasn't happened in the OSS world.
In open or closed source you're likely to get better support if you have a problem that is experienced by many other people. If you're the only one reporting it you're pretty much on your own. That's when OSS has an advantage. When I had trouble running Apache on AIX I just modified the source and moved on.
This is simply not true. Years ago when we upgraded HPUX the way memory pages were locked was changed. In the old version you could have more than one process read from a memory page, in the new one only one process could read. Our software ran much slower and we had serious problems. In spite of having an expensive support contract we got zero help. We were told this was a feature and not a bug. In the end we had to adjust our software and work around the OS bug by aligning all the shared memory buffers to page boundaries. How is that different from Windows?
Salaries this low are still paid in Eastern Europe, let alone the rest of the world.
do you think that some local "big cahunna" will trust the cheap worker more than a US company
Here you are right, they won't. One of the strong selling points will always be: we've been doing this for decades, your guys are just beginners. Ironically I know a case when local programmers were employed to do the job after the american programmers used all the budget and failed to produce anything.
Lessig noticed and the computer was quickly disconnected and replaced with a laptop running on open-source software.
They replaced the windows computer as soon as they discovered it. I wonder how long before that becomes common practice all over the world.
Also --bind-address=127.0.0.1
This way you deny access to other computers but all the tools that connected locally through tcp/ip still work.
I think the guy who should get most credit is the one the convinced Andressen to go ahead with the new Gecko architecture. Anyone knows his name?
I guess its mostly because american and european businesses have the same owners. Europe is approaching fast the stage of United States of Europe and I can already see in the future the United Euroatlantic States emerging.
This is Slashdot where professional help is always available. Which design pattern in particular you need help with?
Oh, not that kind of help ...
I still remember the day when I tried running two separate instances of Mozilla on the same Windows machine. Neither Google nor the forums helped. Luckily I can still read C++.
Open source should mean you can look into the source if you want to, not that you have to look into the source every time you try something non trivial.