It will be interesting how they rationalize Office 12's new interface (the Ribbon paradigm).
They don't. Thats just a regular upgrade and support is about to end bla bla...
Now switching to Open-Office is major, i mean, it's not like the Open, Save and other much used functions are simply in the same place in a totally different application.
It's all mindset, habit and above all fear of change.
Well, that's not really valid. I mean, who has been around longer Picasa, or Digikam? Right, so let's keep thing in perspective and call Picasa an overhyped googleish (==not all that free) alternative to Digikam...
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Gmail vs Pine
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I'm glad to hear your employer allows you to get out through (presumably) ssh, but not all employers do. Thus it's more likely that your average user would be able to access Gmail from work than pine. My current employer (a major bank) blocks both.
Start with running you're sshd on port 443, try again. If it doesn't work try connecting via the companies proxy.
Yeah, great one-liner. Now tell me, these languages are created by who again?
When you feel software should be developed with security in mind, surely the same applies to programming languages. Fancy sound-bites like that are as insightfull as saying "It's the drivers who are dangerous, not they car." while removing the seatbelts. Sure, you're right and likely to be 'dead right' soon.
You have no idea what Exchange/SharePoint can do, do you?
Enlight us...
What is it Exchange/SharePoint can do wich has not been possible in other ways for more than 3 year now? Really, sharepoint creates a lot of fuss but no one told me yet how is does more than the stuff that's been done with Groupwise and/or Lotus for quiet a while.
And yes, depending on the situation, cvs or svn can be a feasable solution for document versioning/sharing, been there, done that.
I must admit to not being completely up to date with the whole BeOS saga. But afaik the last company to own BeOS was Palm. And yes, I know about yellowTAB's ZETA, but they never claimed to actually own any of the BeOS code.
So it might just be it's not palm, but BeOS they are after. Which might fit into the whole Apple X86 thing.
Americans are a funny kind of people, you lie to them and some webpage needs to be fixed...
It really is not my problem, not my government and any country will get the government it deserves, but didn't it occur to you there may just be something else which needs to be fixed?
And, besides the Uder to Bug ratio do you see a relation between the amount of code and the amount of bug? Is any effort made to reduce the amount of code, since, at least from the outside, it seems there is mostly more code being added to create more security...
You do prove a point. Spelling errors distract from the content. It's happening right here...
"As a general rule, I want the story to be short, sweet, and direct. Anything that distracts from
that, I want to chop out."
Thus spelling errors should be avoided. For that reason and that reason alone.
Disclaimer: English is not my native language, I really miss most spelling errors, I don't care about correct spelling, not even in my own language. But the only way to avoid spelling meta discussions really is to avoid spelling errors. Sad, but true.
Perhaps we should call this one 'pulling a google'? I mean, who is the biggest sponsor for the Mozilla Foundation? And who has a huge interest in 'features' like this?
Some much better...
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...it's more consistent and easier to use than Perl 5
Some thing are just so easy there's no pride in it. Now make something more wich is harder to read then Perl 5 and you've achieved something.
It may be better, but is it good?
My patent law is a little rusty, but doesn't the patent owner have to claim infringement within a reasonable amount of time?
I don't think so. Not that I know anything about patent law, but the whole Eolas browser plugin patent would have been voided years ago if this where true.
I do think some kind of 'defend it or lose it' rule (a exists with trademarks) whould be a good idea for patents...
This is an attempt at fixing a hole. Zone-spoofing is a threat and MS realized that. It may not be the best fix but it is a start.
It is far from a fix, adding extra code to provide extra protection is not fixing the problem. This whole 'protected mode' stuff will likely have enough bugs of it's own, it is the software equivalent of duct tape.
It may still work to some extend, my car stopped leaking after some work with duct tape. Are you impressed now? Or should i call it 'brand-new' and 'utra-reliable'?
This is a sign that Mac OS X has a large enough userbase for Sony to worry about Mac users stealing music.
Nope, it shows the Mac userbase is large enough to try to gain control over their systems, spy on their usage of your product (and perhaps some other things) and trick them into spending more money on music they allready bought.
This Sony stuff seems to put a lot of effort into hiding and staying there once installed, but really sucks as a DRM measure. I mean, depending on autorun being on is not a serious DRM solution.
It's not that odd when you think about it. Killing the current scarcity would be bad for a lot of companies since it would destroy the demand for all kind of 'smart' solutions like fancy NAT traversing scheme's, 'everything' over HTTP, etc as well as the demand for 'smart' stuff the manage all this smart stuff.
A world in wich a router is simply a router is a nightmare for both sysadmins and a lot of companies.
And not just 'a subnet', but one that's larger than the current IPv4 address space./48 is a minimum for autoconfiguration stuff. I have a/64 at home on a normal consumer DSL line, no extra charges...
True, but it also explains why PHP will likely be more populair than Java for web apps. The resulting apps will also likely be of lower quality, but Windows is the most used OS as well...
the only reason I haven't is that it supposedly does not install on a machine that already has VMWare Workstation on it, so I need to find another box for testing
Well, erm...
Isn't the whole deal of VMware about not needing another box for testing? Run the player in a virtual machine:)
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It will be interesting how they rationalize Office 12's new interface (the Ribbon paradigm).
They don't. Thats just a regular upgrade and support is about to end bla bla...
Now switching to Open-Office is major, i mean, it's not like the Open, Save and other much used functions are simply in the same place in a totally different application.
It's all mindset, habit and above all fear of change.
I have had IE crash using that. It isn't ready for production websites.
Good thinking, you're almost there. The 'not ready for production websites' is spot on, now change 'It' into 'IE' and you've understoond the problem.
There is a free alternative...
Well, that's not really valid. I mean, who has been around longer Picasa, or Digikam? Right, so let's keep thing in perspective and call Picasa an overhyped googleish (==not all that free) alternative to Digikam...
I'm glad to hear your employer allows you to get out through (presumably) ssh, but not all employers do. Thus it's more likely that your average user would be able to access Gmail from work than pine. My current employer (a major bank) blocks both.
Start with running you're sshd on port 443, try again. If it doesn't work try connecting via the companies proxy.
...but what more can you do that tell in the documentation explicitly to use strncpy...
Well, remove or fix strcpy perhaps. In other words, develop a safer programming language...
languages are not unsafe, but programmers are.
Yeah, great one-liner. Now tell me, these languages are created by who again?
When you feel software should be developed with security in mind, surely the same applies to programming languages. Fancy sound-bites like that are as insightfull as saying "It's the drivers who are dangerous, not they car." while removing the seatbelts. Sure, you're right and likely to be 'dead right' soon.
You have no idea what Exchange/SharePoint can do, do you?
Enlight us...
What is it Exchange/SharePoint can do wich has not been possible in other ways for more than 3 year now? Really, sharepoint creates a lot of fuss but no one told me yet how is does more than the stuff that's been done with Groupwise and/or Lotus for quiet a while.
And yes, depending on the situation, cvs or svn can be a feasable solution for document versioning/sharing, been there, done that.
I must admit to not being completely up to date with the whole BeOS saga. But afaik the last company to own BeOS was Palm. And yes, I know about yellowTAB's ZETA, but they never claimed to actually own any of the BeOS code.
So it might just be it's not palm, but BeOS they are after. Which might fit into the whole Apple X86 thing.
Americans are a funny kind of people, you lie to them and some webpage needs to be fixed...
It really is not my problem, not my government and any country will get the government it deserves, but didn't it occur to you there may just be something else which needs to be fixed?
Believe me, there are more and more gadgets around that are a waste of energy when running as well. ;)
You forgot "Bash-ing the web", "Bits of ash" and of course "She-bang's /bin/laden".
And, besides the Uder to Bug ratio do you see a relation between the amount of code and the amount of bug? Is any effort made to reduce the amount of code, since, at least from the outside, it seems there is mostly more code being added to create more security...
You do prove a point. Spelling errors distract from the content. It's happening right here...
"As a general rule, I want the story to be short, sweet, and direct. Anything that distracts from that, I want to chop out."
Thus spelling errors should be avoided. For that reason and that reason alone.
Disclaimer: English is not my native language, I really miss most spelling errors, I don't care about correct spelling, not even in my own language. But the only way to avoid spelling meta discussions really is to avoid spelling errors. Sad, but true.
3. Mozilla team is pulling an IE
Perhaps we should call this one 'pulling a google'? I mean, who is the biggest sponsor for the Mozilla Foundation? And who has a huge interest in 'features' like this?
...it's more consistent and easier to use than Perl 5
Some thing are just so easy there's no pride in it. Now make something more wich is harder to read then Perl 5 and you've achieved something. It may be better, but is it good?
My patent law is a little rusty, but doesn't the patent owner have to claim infringement within a reasonable amount of time?
I don't think so. Not that I know anything about patent law, but the whole Eolas browser plugin patent would have been voided years ago if this where true. I do think some kind of 'defend it or lose it' rule (a exists with trademarks) whould be a good idea for patents...
This is an attempt at fixing a hole. Zone-spoofing is a threat and MS realized that. It may not be the best fix but it is a start.
It is far from a fix, adding extra code to provide extra protection is not fixing the problem. This whole 'protected mode' stuff will likely have enough bugs of it's own, it is the software equivalent of duct tape.
It may still work to some extend, my car stopped leaking after some work with duct tape. Are you impressed now? Or should i call it 'brand-new' and 'utra-reliable'?
This is a sign that Mac OS X has a large enough userbase for Sony to worry about Mac users stealing music.
Nope, it shows the Mac userbase is large enough to try to gain control over their systems, spy on their usage of your product (and perhaps some other things) and trick them into spending more money on music they allready bought.
This Sony stuff seems to put a lot of effort into hiding and staying there once installed, but really sucks as a DRM measure. I mean, depending on autorun being on is not a serious DRM solution.
Scarcity won't drive IPv6 adoption, oddly enough.
It's not that odd when you think about it. Killing the current scarcity would be bad for a lot of companies since it would destroy the demand for all kind of 'smart' solutions like fancy NAT traversing scheme's, 'everything' over HTTP, etc as well as the demand for 'smart' stuff the manage all this smart stuff.
A world in wich a router is simply a router is a nightmare for both sysadmins and a lot of companies.
You're advocating security through obscurity. Please stop now...
/. account. Hiding it would just be security through obscurity!
Please post the password to your
Your ISP will give you a subnet, not an address.
/48 is a minimum for autoconfiguration stuff. I have a /64 at home on a normal consumer DSL line, no extra charges...
And not just 'a subnet', but one that's larger than the current IPv4 address space.
True, but it also explains why PHP will likely be more populair than Java for web apps. The resulting apps will also likely be of lower quality, but Windows is the most used OS as well...
the only reason I haven't is that it supposedly does not install on a machine that already has VMWare Workstation on it, so I need to find another box for testing
:)
Well, erm...
Isn't the whole deal of VMware about not needing another box for testing? Run the player in a virtual machine
What would be interesting is info on how to keep the printers from putting the dots in at all.
;-)
Neh, what whould be interessting is how to make these printers print the dot's you want...
That, and the serial number of the printer in the oval-office
Trivial applications like Google and Yahoo, yehuh.
Yes, these are pretty trivial applictions. They may hold huge ammount of data and get huge loads but when it comes to complexity they are trivial...