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  1. Re:I feel you with every bit of my soul on Elegant PHP Architectures? · · Score: 1

    You're not alone.. I love writing big projects in C, but all my PHP work seems very hacky, and when coming back to it after 2 years to make some code changes I can't understand how everything hangs together (despite lots of comments etc). Help!

  2. Re:Page based is not scalable on Elegant PHP Architectures? · · Score: 1

    Is it? I prefer the latter because you can put the parameters in any order. The former has the constraint that you have to define the function parameter order as well as their names. What if someone goes http://www.thebigchoice.com/York/Graduate_Jobs/IT_ and_Management_Systems/ ?

  3. Re:My PHP tips on Elegant PHP Architectures? · · Score: 1

    You might be able to answer something for me. I've shied away from having a "base.inc" or similar other global include file. Doing so might involve having thousands of lines code for each page load. This must take a lot of time for the server to parse, so it would greatly reduce the load capacity of the server. Is this thinking correct or is there something else going on?

  4. Re:Dense atmosphere is the culprit on Photos from the Surface of Venus · · Score: 1

    Well, my name's not Mike, so I have no idea who you are talking to. And I don't have to prove that the atmosphere causes lensing in order to prove you wrong. (If you disagree with that, maybe you should be an American court judge or something).

  5. Re:David Nelson [TSA most wanetd??] on False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List · · Score: 1

    When I view this page (Win2k , IE6), I get an alert box "Printing error", "There is not enough memory for this operation". (I don't even have a printer either). At first I thought this was a clever spyware (eg. pressing OK would bookmark me, or run a virus, or something), but those strings aren't in the page source. Can anyone enlighten me?

  6. Re:Deal hunting? on False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List · · Score: 1

    You pay for a seat someone else buys? How does that work?
    If they don't pay for it then you should be able to pay for it. First in, first served. Right?

  7. Re:Soundex??? on False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a bit insulting to first-years, don't you think?
    On my course, in the section on name recognition, we first learned Soundex, and then learned Obershelp, along with the fact that the latter is far more accurate, and Soundex is pretty crap.

    Perhaps it was written by people with no education..

  8. Re:Ithica's is bigger on Maine Completes Largest To-Scale Solar System Model · · Score: 1

    Neptune would have to be in the sea then.. appropriate :)

  9. Re:Dense atmosphere is the culprit on Photos from the Surface of Venus · · Score: 1

    All of your posts on this topic involved you not thinking.

  10. Re:Dense atmosphere is the culprit on Photos from the Surface of Venus · · Score: 1

    Someone mod this up, geez. And tell that retard PD that some people understand optics better than he does.

  11. Re:Standard Coding Procedures on Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity · · Score: 1

    Sounds awful. Reality Step 4 seems like the problem to me.

    I note that Apache's development did not have bean-counters though :)

  12. Re: Is djbdns vulnerable? on Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity · · Score: 1

    I have a lower slashdot user ID than DJB :D
    That's made my day

    My reply:

    4. All of the above

    If this guy can lie about observing the vulnerability in your software, it makes you wonder what else was he lying about

  13. Re:Afraid not on Build Your Own Fuel Injection Computer · · Score: 1

    The parent poster suggested that the ECU calculates the most efficient fuelmap, except for at WOT when it reverts to pre-programmed values.

  14. Re:I've seen this before on Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity · · Score: 1

    It's scary to me to think that people who write code in the first style get to submit code to important projects like Apache. It looks like a Basic programmer writing in C syntax. Even for a string with no double slashes it is far less efficient than the second style.

    Regarding the second function, it's unaesthetic (to me) to have the ++s twice, how about this:

    no2slash.html

    PS. "Lameness filter encountered. Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters." I suspect I wouldn't have got that message if the code were in VB instead of C :(

  15. Re:I hope this isn't news to anyone... on Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity · · Score: 1

    Does this still work on hashtables where each node consists of a linked list? (as opposed to ones where if the node is full, it does on to check the next node)

  16. Re:glib example on Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like this:

    >cat security.sh

    #!/bin/bash

    ln /bin/false /usr/bin/vi
    ln /bin/false /usr/bin/pico
    ln /bin/false /usr/bin/joe
    ln /bin/false /usr/bin/ae
    # note - don't need to disable emacs use, by the time the program actually loads, security will have advanced enough to render dos attacks useless

  17. Re:Bugtraq Post on Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity · · Score: 1
    Hello.

    How are you gentlemen.

    These attacks can occur over a very wide gamut of software, with impacts ranging from devestating to innocious.

    An attack which makes the server owner take off his top? That's bad enough (especially if it's CowboyNeal).. I don't even want to find out what "innocious" means now.

    We have studied and found the following applications possibly vulnerable to a greater or lesser degree: DJBDNS 1.05

    Of course, the chance that DJB will admit something is wrong with his software is less than the chance of CowboyNeal's vest being removed by this post.

    Finally, what is a Bro server anyway? {insert obligatory black joke}

  18. Re:DOS attack on Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity · · Score: 1

    I think it's more about CPU power than bandwidth. Can it serve 50 users per second ( that would be my estimate.. ) If it were only a bandwidth problem, we wouldn't have all these reports of servers crashing from being slashdotted

  19. Re:Interesting... on Build Your Own Fuel Injection Computer · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Does that mean that if I super duper my inductions system, I could go faster by sitting at say 0.9 throttle instead of flooring?

  20. Re:Holy lack of engine tuners! on Build Your Own Fuel Injection Computer · · Score: 1

    You correctly recognize that there's no way to get any power out of a Honda engine. Other manufacturers do not share this problem however. You can vastly increase factory power by sacrificing fuel efficiency , etc.

    As someone living in a country without emissions controls, how are yours monitored? Can you get away with removing your cat and only putting it in when your vehicle gets checked? Do the cops ever poll you over and stick their meter in your exhaust?

  21. Re:Most Logical Mind? on Google US Puzzle Championship · · Score: 1

    People in this contest realise that their likelihood of winning depends on their puzzle skill.

    Anyone know if this 'World Puzzle Championship' has a website?

  22. Re:Heard of the Eternity Puzzle? on Google US Puzzle Championship · · Score: 1

    1 in 10500 is MORE LIKELY than 1 in 14 million !

    By your reasoning then, the chance of winning the lottery is about the same as your calculated chance of solving this puzzle randomly every saturday for a year and a half.

    Note that this is actually wrong too, you don't add probabilities, you multiply them (eg. the chance of doing a 1/10000 twice is about 1/10000000, which is closer to your lottery one).

    I can see why the puzzle seems so daunting to you ;)

  23. Re:Learn your metaphors - cat out of the bag!!! on Novell Claims Ownership of UNIX System V · · Score: 1

    This would have been modded offtopic, if it were written by anyone except Bruce Perens

  24. Re:It wasn't just Symantec on Microsoft Pulls Broken XP Update · · Score: 1

    Can you fill us in on what the bug actually was?

    Lost network access entirely? Can't ping your LAN? Can't nmap with tcp or udp your lan either? etc.

    Something in the MS article linked mentioned the need to have certain ports open - did you have those open?

  25. Re:Personal Experience on Microsoft Pulls Broken XP Update · · Score: 1

    Try unloading the Norton ones then. My experience has been that Norton utilities for MS-DOS were superb, but everything since then sucked major ass.

    Anyway, the story even said that this problem only occurred on PCs with Symantec software (Symantec = Norton).