I couldn't agree more. To me there are two reasons to use a WISIWYG editor. Style and time. Without a doubt if you design your web site graphically with visual layout tools it will end up looking much better. Not only that, but I promise that it will save you a LOT of time. Have you ever made a page with a complicated nested table structure? You could spend hours saving, alt-tabbing, and refreshing to get it to do what you want it to. Add to that any dynamic element such as rollover images and you could spend all day on one page. With Dreamweaver or something similar, it will take minutes. More developers need to realize this fact. Don't let Dreamweaver handle your database connections and record sets, do the back end code yourself in emacs or whatever, and use Dreamweaver to do the graphic front end.
"Additionally, users of iTunes are limited to music from Apple's Music Store... if you use Apple's music store along with iTunes, you don't have the ability of using the over 40 different Windows Media-compatible portable music devices
What typical Microsoft FUD!
That is a complete and boldfaced lie! You are absolutly NOT limited to music that you purchase from the ITMS if you use iTunes. I installed iTunes for windows the day it came out and today I have about 1.6 gig of music in my library. Guess how many of those songs are from the iTunes music store? Two. TWO! I have spent $1.98 on the ITMS and yet I have had no problem listening to all of the same music files that I had before. What that guy said was a complete lie.
About the portable devices: It is true that iTunes favors AAC encoding which is only on a limited amount of portable devices, but guess what? iTunes gives you the full ability to rip/encode with MP3! I promise you that there are more MP3 enabled devices out there than there are WMA devices, so the way I see it, iTunes has farther reach than Media Player does.He also called iTunes restrictive. Excuse me? Compared to what?! Has he even bothered to look at the WMA alternatives that his own department is putting out?
Of course there are major technological issues, such as not only completely re-writing their kernel, but also completely re-writing the entire Carbon framework. But besides that, the major issue is that Apple is primarily a hardware company and always have been. They make some of the best software on the planet and the whole purpose of it is to drive the sale of more hardware. If they let you install OS X on commodity DIY x86 parts, they don't get a hardware sale, and that would eviscerate their business model.
At one picture per second, that comes out to 12.6 million pictures for the whole alphabet. My guess is that the 3500 hr estimate was a bit hight which would bring the actually number closed to 12 mil even for the whole thing.
I know you were trolling, but I have to differ with you there. I have a beige G3/300 tower with 192 megs of ram, and it boots every bit as fast as my Windows XP box which is a 1ghz Athalon with 512 mb ram. Granted the G3 won't run games like my XP box but that mostly has to do with the video card. I was hesitant to put OS X on it in the first place, but I have been downright SHOCKED at how well it runs on this old hardware. And it is actually more stable than it was with OS 9.
Of cource I am rather dissapointed that Panther won't run on it:(
Your telling me you have never seen independant films on the 'net? You must not have looked. For starters, check out atom films. They have a wide variety of styles, and some really good content. There a lot of good indi films out there, you just have to look for them. Try google.
The only thing that gets me more spam than posting on slashdot is my slashdot.meetup.com membership. I made a very wise decision to use a separate email addy for that one, and that has saved me a lot of headache. If you want spam, sign up for that! Also go around posting to every forum you can find and put your email at the bottom of the post.
Outlook or other Windows hacking prone applications
What like RPC? The vast majority of root-level expliots in Windows have to do with un-checked buffers, or bad parsing on open ports that exploit SYSTEM LEVEL PROCESSES! You know what? I have never been infected by an outlook virus. I have had plenty of windows viri though, and it usually happens right between the time that I have done a fresh OS install and when I can manage to download the latest virus definitions. By the time I can apply patches and do a scan I have already caught a virus from some other idiot on my subnet (yes I know there are ways to do this so that I am not exposed before being protected...live and learn right?).
Have you been keeping up with the security updates that MS has released in the last four weeks? ALMOST ALL of them affect ALL versions of thier OS and have nothing to do with Outlook or any other third part app. On just what basis can you call 2k/xp secure? Are you confusing stability with security? I'll give you that the OS has gotten much more stable, as in doesn't crash as often and requires less reboots, but almost all security holes that are annouced affect either ALL windows versions including XP, OR affect all NT versions which includes NT, 2K, and XP.
There is not another OS on the planet that comes close to the amount of remotely exploitable holes as MS OS's, and that is based purely on an insecure model from the ground up. What does that mean? Practically everything that the user doesn't initiate runs with administrator privilages! In a secure model if an RPC buffer overflow is exploited, the worse thing that could happen is a DoS attack because you have taken over that process and can flood the network. In an IN-secure model like windows uses, if RPC gets comprimised your whole system is your toy! Why? Because it runs with adminstrator priviliges! That means that any code you run might as well been run by Bill G himself.
Sure you could argue security by obscurity and say that these machines will not be on the internet, but it has to communicate with the mothership somehow to authenticate you, and means at leas ONE open port, and that means a root-level exploit waiting to happen.
LOL...he said that Windows is secure...tee hee hee
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Hmm...insanly protecting IP rights...tossing around stupid lawsuits...
I didn't say that he wasn't Mormon, I said that his religion has nothing to do with his actions. IE It's not his church that is causing all this. He is the waco here.
The point to this is not practicallity. People that assume that are misunderstanding, IMHO. The people that do this kind of this do it as a hobby. For example, I'm almost finished making my own MAME arcade cabinet. Basically you put a computer in side an old arcade machine and hack a keyboard so that the arcade buttons actually press keyboard buttons and you can play MAME games on it. You could just as easliy say "you already can play MAME on your desktop, what is the point in going through all that trouble?" or "you used to have 104 keys on your key board and now you only have 12, what is the point?", or "Now that computer is inside that arcade manchine you can't do anything else with it, it's not nearly as usefull". Half the fun was hacking the keyboard into and soldering on the arcade buttons. The other half of the fun will be actually playing on the thing. Is it practial? NO! My wife doesn't want to let me keep it in the house because it is so big. Was it fun? Heck yeah! When you fire it up, and it actually works there is a big sence of accomplishment that is hard to get in other ways. That is why so many programmers (myself included) also write code in thier spare time. Why do people put neon in thier PC case? Why would you put LED's in your mouse? Why would you put a blower on the hood of a Ford Fiesta?
My hat is off to the people that have accomplished this. There doesn't have to be a good reason for the project to still be worth it.
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I don't the the poster was making any connection to the LDS church, that just happened to be in the quote that he put in. I have to agree with you though, religion has nothing to do with this whole thing and I find it unfortuate that the Mormon church (or any church for that matter) could get associated with this kind of nonscence. Let's keep religion out of it. Yes, the company is in Utah, a lot of them are probably Mormon, but if they were in Mexico, they would probably all be catholic. So what? It doen't have anything to do with the phyco Mc'bribe' or the actions of SCO.
I know everyone will jump to conclusions about this, but before everyone shouts foul and hypocricy, consider that there might actually be a good reason for this!
My guess is that U.S. Millitary special ops who are undercover need to be able to safely communicate back home with out fear of being discovered by the local government. This could also be a big benifit to anyone who is trying to escape to freedom to coordinate things with relitives back home.
Support call jokes? SUPPORT CALL JOKES! You should at least make an attempt to investigate before you assume that I am lying.
At 10 pm we took the database offline, and backed up to tape. The installer didn't work so we installed Java. The installer still didn't work, so we went online downloaded the latest version of Java and installed it. The installer STILL didn't work. We called the Oracle 24/7 help desk that costs the company upwards of $100k/year. After telling us to do everything that we had already done, they escallated the call...and ran out of ideas. We tried in vain all night long, and no matter what we did, all we could do is sit and stare at the big install button that did nothing when you clicked. Finially at 8 am we restored from tape and brought the db back the way it was before we started. Months later someone else happened to come across an entry in Oracles knowldgebase about it, but the sad thing is all the money that gets tossed away in support contracts, only to have them say "duh, I don't know" when a problem comes up.
For me the main thing that makes MSSQL so attractive is the visual tool Enterprize Manager. It ROCKS!! I know there is a simmilar tool for MySql that comes close. Is there anything like that for Postgres? Something that is NOT web based?
I know people are going to eviscerate you for saying that, but I have to agree with you. I have always been against most microsoft products, but I just can't lie to myself anymore when it comes to MSSQL. Enterprize manager is the best GUI I have ever seen for SQL management and it makes my job MUCH easier. It lets you pump out all the raw SQL you want to make queries, but you can also use a visual tool that has all the ease of use that access has, but with the enterprize power of MSSQL. And what about the installers! I haven't used Oracle in a couple of years, but I will never forget how much it sucked to try and get 9i installed. Nothing but a java installer! I HAD to put java on my db server or 9i wouldn't install, no command line option at all. How dumb is that? Another caveat, make sure the numlock key is on, or the installer won't work anyway. There was a big fat button that said "install", but didn't do a thing because we had the num lock off. Spent 12 hours on the phone with Oracle and they could't figure out what was wrong. We happened accross the bug report on their web page months later. MSSQL on the other hand? Never a probelm so far on any of the hardare that I have tried it on.
No I don't work for MS, no I'm not in bed with thier marketing department, no I'm not afraid of the command line, etc. I just can't deny that it is a good product. In my opinion the best product MS has ever released, and much cheaper than Oracal.
Granted, I still don't trust MS to be secure, so I never let it be internet facing. To get around that you let the web server be internet facing and only allow connections to the db from that one box. They would have to comprimise you from the inside first, or take control of the web server. And there is nothing stopping you from using Linux and Apache on that web server. We do the same thing with Exchange. I don't like exchange nearly as much as I like MSSQL but the VP's demand it so we just put it behind the firewall and relay all the outbound mail to a Unix-based mailserver in the DMZ.
Unix security on the outside, MS useability on the inside.
I would like some serious talk about just what exactly we ARE supposed to do about spam. Government moves too slow to pass an effective law, and the spammers don't abide by the law anyway. Filters don't work effectivly, blacklists are not working either apparently. Does anyone have a usefull suggestion about how to fix this problem?
One idea I've had (or maybe I've heard it somewhere else, I can't remember) is authorization. Change the protocol, or maybe just implement at server, so that before anyone can send you an email they have to request permission. In that request they would identify themselves, and before they start emailing you stuff you would have to send them back permission. Anyone that is in your contact list would automatically be given permission. If it turns out to be spam you could revoke permission. Also analyze the email header and do reverse lookup to see if the domain names resolve properly. If a domain is spoofed, deny it automatically.
Perhaps this has been done before, and I'm sure there are flaws, but I am tierd of hearing about how big a problem this is, without hearing any good ideas about fixing it. Any other thoughts?
I chuckled at that, because I had just the opposite experiance. I also use OSX, Linux, and HP-UX, and in Linux and OSX I am used to typing ps -ax. Then I picked up an HP-9000 and discovered that it didn't work... ps -ef instead. Annoying! I guess the real winner here is Linux for accounting for both.
I agree completely. I belong to an international chruch that has food distribution centers all over the country. Each center has a HAM radio operator. Once a week they get on the horn and communicate, and everyone relays messages for anyone who can't hear the 'central command'. In the case of an emergancy they work together to help determine where the food needs to be shipped to, and also to help local emergancy personel.
I don't know how anyone could discount HAM radio. You can run it in your car and talk to people thousands of miles away. I am very glad there are still people out there that can communicate over large distances even with no internet, phone lines, or power lines.
Did you even read my post? There is no MS section. If there was it would be located at http://microsoft.slashdot.org just like apache.slashdot.org and bsd.slashdot.org. There is an MS topic just like there is for IE, SCO/Caldera and Windows. The whole point of my post was to ask WHICH one, sections or topics, he was refering to.
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The funny thing is, I didn't know that the "Democratic National Commitee" had anything to do with the FCC.
I for one, welcome our new conservitive overlords.
I couldn't agree more. To me there are two reasons to use a WISIWYG editor. Style and time. Without a doubt if you design your web site graphically with visual layout tools it will end up looking much better. Not only that, but I promise that it will save you a LOT of time. Have you ever made a page with a complicated nested table structure? You could spend hours saving, alt-tabbing, and refreshing to get it to do what you want it to. Add to that any dynamic element such as rollover images and you could spend all day on one page. With Dreamweaver or something similar, it will take minutes. More developers need to realize this fact. Don't let Dreamweaver handle your database connections and record sets, do the back end code yourself in emacs or whatever, and use Dreamweaver to do the graphic front end.
Dreamweaver MX supports ftp with SSH encrypted login as well as RDS, SourceSafe, and WebDAV.
perl -e 'print "010\n001\n111\n";'
What typical Microsoft FUD!
That is a complete and boldfaced lie! You are absolutly NOT limited to music that you purchase from the ITMS if you use iTunes. I installed iTunes for windows the day it came out and today I have about 1.6 gig of music in my library. Guess how many of those songs are from the iTunes music store? Two. TWO! I have spent $1.98 on the ITMS and yet I have had no problem listening to all of the same music files that I had before. What that guy said was a complete lie.
About the portable devices: It is true that iTunes favors AAC encoding which is only on a limited amount of portable devices, but guess what? iTunes gives you the full ability to rip/encode with MP3! I promise you that there are more MP3 enabled devices out there than there are WMA devices, so the way I see it, iTunes has farther reach than Media Player does.He also called iTunes restrictive. Excuse me? Compared to what?! Has he even bothered to look at the WMA alternatives that his own department is putting out?
*sigh*
Ok, I'm done now.
Of course there are major technological issues, such as not only completely re-writing their kernel, but also completely re-writing the entire Carbon framework. But besides that, the major issue is that Apple is primarily a hardware company and always have been. They make some of the best software on the planet and the whole purpose of it is to drive the sale of more hardware. If they let you install OS X on commodity DIY x86 parts, they don't get a hardware sale, and that would eviscerate their business model.
At one picture per second, that comes out to 12.6 million pictures for the whole alphabet. My guess is that the 3500 hr estimate was a bit hight which would bring the actually number closed to 12 mil even for the whole thing.
Oh, you were kidding!...nevermind
Of cource I am rather dissapointed that Panther won't run on it :(
Your telling me you have never seen independant films on the 'net? You must not have looked. For starters, check out atom films. They have a wide variety of styles, and some really good content. There a lot of good indi films out there, you just have to look for them. Try google.
The only thing that gets me more spam than posting on slashdot is my slashdot.meetup.com membership. I made a very wise decision to use a separate email addy for that one, and that has saved me a lot of headache. If you want spam, sign up for that! Also go around posting to every forum you can find and put your email at the bottom of the post.
LOL
Sell you black people on ebay. I about wet my pants I laughed so hard.
Way to go MSN!! I wonder how that is working out for them?
Outlook or other Windows hacking prone applications
What like RPC? The vast majority of root-level expliots in Windows have to do with un-checked buffers, or bad parsing on open ports that exploit SYSTEM LEVEL PROCESSES! You know what? I have never been infected by an outlook virus. I have had plenty of windows viri though, and it usually happens right between the time that I have done a fresh OS install and when I can manage to download the latest virus definitions. By the time I can apply patches and do a scan I have already caught a virus from some other idiot on my subnet (yes I know there are ways to do this so that I am not exposed before being protected...live and learn right?).
Have you been keeping up with the security updates that MS has released in the last four weeks? ALMOST ALL of them affect ALL versions of thier OS and have nothing to do with Outlook or any other third part app. On just what basis can you call 2k/xp secure? Are you confusing stability with security? I'll give you that the OS has gotten much more stable, as in doesn't crash as often and requires less reboots, but almost all security holes that are annouced affect either ALL windows versions including XP, OR affect all NT versions which includes NT, 2K, and XP.
There is not another OS on the planet that comes close to the amount of remotely exploitable holes as MS OS's, and that is based purely on an insecure model from the ground up. What does that mean? Practically everything that the user doesn't initiate runs with administrator privilages! In a secure model if an RPC buffer overflow is exploited, the worse thing that could happen is a DoS attack because you have taken over that process and can flood the network. In an IN-secure model like windows uses, if RPC gets comprimised your whole system is your toy! Why? Because it runs with adminstrator priviliges! That means that any code you run might as well been run by Bill G himself.
Sure you could argue security by obscurity and say that these machines will not be on the internet, but it has to communicate with the mothership somehow to authenticate you, and means at leas ONE open port, and that means a root-level exploit waiting to happen.
LOL...he said that Windows is secure...tee hee hee
<insert weak reference to SCO here>
I didn't say that he wasn't Mormon, I said that his religion has nothing to do with his actions. IE It's not his church that is causing all this. He is the waco here.
My hat is off to the people that have accomplished this. There doesn't have to be a good reason for the project to still be worth it.
I don't the the poster was making any connection to the LDS church, that just happened to be in the quote that he put in. I have to agree with you though, religion has nothing to do with this whole thing and I find it unfortuate that the Mormon church (or any church for that matter) could get associated with this kind of nonscence. Let's keep religion out of it. Yes, the company is in Utah, a lot of them are probably Mormon, but if they were in Mexico, they would probably all be catholic. So what? It doen't have anything to do with the phyco Mc'bribe' or the actions of SCO.
My guess is that U.S. Millitary special ops who are undercover need to be able to safely communicate back home with out fear of being discovered by the local government. This could also be a big benifit to anyone who is trying to escape to freedom to coordinate things with relitives back home.
At 10 pm we took the database offline, and backed up to tape. The installer didn't work so we installed Java. The installer still didn't work, so we went online downloaded the latest version of Java and installed it. The installer STILL didn't work. We called the Oracle 24/7 help desk that costs the company upwards of $100k/year. After telling us to do everything that we had already done, they escallated the call...and ran out of ideas. We tried in vain all night long, and no matter what we did, all we could do is sit and stare at the big install button that did nothing when you clicked. Finially at 8 am we restored from tape and brought the db back the way it was before we started. Months later someone else happened to come across an entry in Oracles knowldgebase about it, but the sad thing is all the money that gets tossed away in support contracts, only to have them say "duh, I don't know" when a problem comes up.
For me the main thing that makes MSSQL so attractive is the visual tool Enterprize Manager. It ROCKS!! I know there is a simmilar tool for MySql that comes close. Is there anything like that for Postgres? Something that is NOT web based?
No I don't work for MS, no I'm not in bed with thier marketing department, no I'm not afraid of the command line, etc. I just can't deny that it is a good product. In my opinion the best product MS has ever released, and much cheaper than Oracal.
Granted, I still don't trust MS to be secure, so I never let it be internet facing. To get around that you let the web server be internet facing and only allow connections to the db from that one box. They would have to comprimise you from the inside first, or take control of the web server. And there is nothing stopping you from using Linux and Apache on that web server. We do the same thing with Exchange. I don't like exchange nearly as much as I like MSSQL but the VP's demand it so we just put it behind the firewall and relay all the outbound mail to a Unix-based mailserver in the DMZ.
Unix security on the outside, MS useability on the inside.
Go ahead and flame me now, I'm ready for you.
One idea I've had (or maybe I've heard it somewhere else, I can't remember) is authorization. Change the protocol, or maybe just implement at server, so that before anyone can send you an email they have to request permission. In that request they would identify themselves, and before they start emailing you stuff you would have to send them back permission. Anyone that is in your contact list would automatically be given permission. If it turns out to be spam you could revoke permission. Also analyze the email header and do reverse lookup to see if the domain names resolve properly. If a domain is spoofed, deny it automatically.
Perhaps this has been done before, and I'm sure there are flaws, but I am tierd of hearing about how big a problem this is, without hearing any good ideas about fixing it. Any other thoughts?
I chuckled at that, because I had just the opposite experiance. I also use OSX, Linux, and HP-UX, and in Linux and OSX I am used to typing ps -ax. Then I picked up an HP-9000 and discovered that it didn't work... ps -ef instead. Annoying! I guess the real winner here is Linux for accounting for both.
I don't know how anyone could discount HAM radio. You can run it in your car and talk to people thousands of miles away. I am very glad there are still people out there that can communicate over large distances even with no internet, phone lines, or power lines.
Did you even read my post? There is no MS section. If there was it would be located at http://microsoft.slashdot.org just like apache.slashdot.org and bsd.slashdot.org. There is an MS topic just like there is for IE, SCO/Caldera and Windows. The whole point of my post was to ask WHICH one, sections or topics, he was refering to.