I suspect they are trying to limit damage to their bandwidth costs rather than damage to the servers now, either that or I'd rather not be their sysadmin;-)
usually you do that with a static page saying "go away" or something rather than just auth'ing.
Suspect they were attacked and either someone else set password protection on them or they did it while they repair damage. Otherwise that seems like very very strange behavior.
Actually they still have the auth in place... yep just checked it...
I suspect they are trying to limit damage to their bandwidth costs rather than damage to the servers now, either that or I'd rather not be their sysadmin;-)
For me the netbook is primarily used on the road (remote admin, occasional browsing etc) so the netbook edition is enough in this instance.
The other desktop machines obviously have the full desktop.
One thing that is right in 10.10 is that support for USB 3G sticks now work properly, under 10.04 they were almost useless (so downgrading isn't really an option).
I know some people say you can't configure Unity (running it on a netbook) the one thing it really needs is the ability to auto-hide as I've now got this big column of desktop real estate on the left of the screen I can't do anything with anymore.
NB: To those complaining about lack of configurability - try dragging icons around or right clicking them - you can modify it...
It's not just the Earth thats moving around it's axis and then around the Sun but the entire Solar System is in orbit around the Galaxy and the galaxy is slowly moving as well... so yes unless you use some central point of reference you could end up anywhere, most likely in the vacuum of space or worse in some stellar core...
Agreed, it doesn't imply quality - the problem is how do you split the two?
Saying that I'd use perl or something else if its the right tool for the job - look at say mercurial which is mostly python (& some C) - I'm not that fixed to a specific language to start the flame wars some people seem to... that url was the only one I had to hand at the time...
Rarely on the desktop myself... & for me that amounts to Netbeans. The rest is server-side, which fortunately reads as Linux. However for development it's a problem.
* hardware wise my 3yo MBP still outruns most machines in the office (ignoring the fact its personal hardware) * os wise it's just as good as Linux (usually use Ubuntu)
I still fall back to my various Linux boxen a lot but for the actual IDE, I find OSX does fulfill the so called 'ultimate developer's machine' - I actually know a former MS-SQL developer collegue who has converted because it does work.
Let's hope either OpenJDK or IcedTea can fill in the gaps...
The danger is that they are going to force people down the Lion/AppStore route on the desktop - and the size of the desktop user-base will probably surprise them and bite them where it hurts most, their wallet - not everything is iPhone/iPad
As I use my Mac as my primary java development environment (ok still on 10.5.x but about to finally go to snow leopard), this does say, wtf is going to happen after this latest update?
I.e. is Snoracle going to support macs directly or are we going to wait for OpenJDK etc?
Whats worse is that I read this yesterday as it was trending on the bbc news site... and the fact that it was in an ancient layout for their site didn't cause me to spot the date either...
If jailbreakme can use that exploit then so can someone malicious. Imagine having your phone bricked because you viewed the wrong PDF on some website. The update is a very good thing.
That's true. Although recently jailbreakme got some legal footing about the legality of jail-breaking a phone, the way they did it was an issue, so it's good that the hole was broken.
Another good example, not of bricking a phone, was shown on the UK tv news last night - of an example app on Android being able to record arbitrary audio after performing a similar hack.
So although this says it's anti-jailbreak, that's just secondary - it was one hell of a hole in the first place.
I thought this was Slashdot: Source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues
Not Apple HQ.
The PADDs similar tablets in general, not just Apples iPad.
I agree with you.
Think of all those e-readers out there, they too look like the smaller PADD's you see in TNG - albeit with black & white screens.
The only things an iPad (or iPhone/iPod touch) has more in common with PADD's are colour and touch sensitive screens, although some e-readers also have the latter.
I think there's too many iPad centric articles around at the moment, much to Apple's delight I think
GPS also provides an extremely accurate clock signal all around the world (after all, it comes from an atomic clock onboard the satellites). All you need is a GPS receiver. You can put most decent GPS modules into a "clock mode" where you lock their position on the globe and they optimize the calculations to give you the most accurate time.
I totally forgot about GPS. NMEA (the protocol used by most devices) do include the time, but it's been so long since I used one (my old handheld died years ago).
I wonder if the GPS unit's in most modern mobile phones can do the same?
NTP solved this ages ago by distributing atomic clock accuracy through the network.
The only problem this will solve is where it is a private network not connected to public NTP servers (or organizations that do not trust public NTP). In that case, they would most likely be able to afford a atomic clock.
An alternate would be radio clock signals like the old MSF Rugby signal in the UK (now moved to scotland)?
Ok not as accurate as an atomic clock but for most NTP cases it would be accurate enough
I think you might be surprised. Actually, the helicopters are often operated by the HM Coastguard; the base where I learned to fly also hosted a Coastguard search and rescue group, which ran a couple of helicopters.
Actually its a combination of all three.
Although HM Coastguard monitors the coastline, both the RAF and RN have air-sea rescue units for operational reasons (dating back to WWII) but handle the civilian rescues as part of their duties.
That would come out during the test, as when I do them the responses are either spoken or written on a whiteboard with the candidate talking about the answer.
If, as you said, they know what function to use but don't know the exact parameters, thats no problem. If anything I would rather them to be that way.
I doubt any of us know every parameter for every function - I dont, but I would view knowing what functions are available as being more useful than knowing every parameter.
It also helps to pick up those who are good at taking exams but don't know how to handle themselves in the real world.
Are you sure a bout that? Seems to me you are just presenting another exam to them, which by your own definition, they know how to handle.
Not quite. With the exams, they have resources available to give them the answers (i.e. textbooks, MCSE Cram's etc), but with a test within the interview, they won't necessarily know the answer until they see the test.
The tests I use are more real world as they are usually based on a problem I have had within the previous couple of weeks, not something they would get from a text book but something they would know from experience.
When I've been holding interviews, I always make up a set of tests just to make sure what they put on their CV is accurate.
The number of times I've had someone put on their CV they can do something we are after, but in reality they know Sh*t about it, has only really come out when they do the test. It also helps to pick up those who are good at taking exams but don't know how to handle themselves in the real world.
Unlike the other professions, IT doesn't have a legal backing. i.e. lawyers and accountants have qualifications that are backed by some law or another so if they write bullshit on their CV then it can come back on them. Not with IT unfortunately.
> Like NetBeans? > > Sorry, but NetBeans has convinced me that even Sun selected specialist experts can't write a responsive GUI in Java. The reason why may be debateable, the fact is observable.
I agree with you. I actually use NetBeans all the time, and it's one of the things that's annoyed me the most that it becomes unresponsive, like during a refactor. Why the hell that's running in the EDT I don't know.
This does boil down to what I originally said about a lot of developers (and in this case Sun's own "experts") not following that simple rule.
Here I'm currently working on a Swing app that has a lot of network IO in it and I'm taking a lot of care to ensure that the GUI is responsive. The amount of extra code, negligible. It just takes a couple of extra minutes to think things through before typing it. Not that hard, and yet you get an app that doesn't piss off the users.
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I suspect they are trying to limit damage to their bandwidth costs rather than damage to the servers now, either that or I'd rather not be their sysadmin ;-)
usually you do that with a static page saying "go away" or something rather than just auth'ing.
Thats what you or I would do...
Suspect they were attacked and either someone else set password protection on them or they did it while they repair damage. Otherwise that seems like very very strange behavior.
Actually they still have the auth in place... yep just checked it...
I suspect they are trying to limit damage to their bandwidth costs rather than damage to the servers now, either that or I'd rather not be their sysadmin ;-)
... follow her on twitter?
Interesting that every tweet for the last 23 hours says: 'There is no excerpt because this is a protected post'...
All I see is a 401 Authorization Required page - even their home page is using basic auth!
For me the netbook is primarily used on the road (remote admin, occasional browsing etc) so the netbook edition is enough in this instance.
The other desktop machines obviously have the full desktop.
One thing that is right in 10.10 is that support for USB 3G sticks now work properly, under 10.04 they were almost useless (so downgrading isn't really an option).
I know some people say you can't configure Unity (running it on a netbook) the one thing it really needs is the ability to auto-hide as I've now got this big column of desktop real estate on the left of the screen I can't do anything with anymore.
NB: To those complaining about lack of configurability - try dragging icons around or right clicking them - you can modify it...
It's not just the Earth thats moving around it's axis and then around the Sun but the entire Solar System is in orbit around the Galaxy and the galaxy is slowly moving as well... so yes unless you use some central point of reference you could end up anywhere, most likely in the vacuum of space or worse in some stellar core...
Oops meant 7.0M2 there's no RC yet :-(
No I found Xcode horrible... NetBeans 6.x/7.0RC1 (with the C modules added)
Agreed, it doesn't imply quality - the problem is how do you split the two?
Saying that I'd use perl or something else if its the right tool for the job - look at say mercurial which is mostly python (& some C) - I'm not that fixed to a specific language to start the flame wars some people seem to... that url was the only one I had to hand at the time...
Rarely on the desktop myself... & for me that amounts to Netbeans. The rest is server-side, which fortunately reads as Linux. However for development it's a problem.
Hmmm, let me see...
* hardware wise my 3yo MBP still outruns most machines in the office (ignoring the fact its personal hardware)
* os wise it's just as good as Linux (usually use Ubuntu)
So the old mac addage doesn't really hold up.
As for java... http://langpop.com/ and look at what's the most popular....
To quote Scotty - use the correct tool for the job... not "Start using a proper programming language" bollocks...
I still fall back to my various Linux boxen a lot but for the actual IDE, I find OSX does fulfill the so called 'ultimate developer's machine' - I actually know a former MS-SQL developer collegue who has converted because it does work.
Let's hope either OpenJDK or IcedTea can fill in the gaps...
The danger is that they are going to force people down the Lion/AppStore route on the desktop - and the size of the desktop user-base will probably surprise them and bite them where it hurts most, their wallet - not everything is iPhone/iPad
As I use my Mac as my primary java development environment (ok still on 10.5.x but about to finally go to snow leopard), this does say, wtf is going to happen after this latest update?
I.e. is Snoracle going to support macs directly or are we going to wait for OpenJDK etc?
3. these have been here before... http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/10/02/1327225/2009-Ig-Nobels-Awarded-For-Gas-Mask-Bras-and-More?from=rss
Whats worse is that I read this yesterday as it was trending on the bbc news site... and the fact that it was in an ancient layout for their site didn't cause me to spot the date either...
If jailbreakme can use that exploit then so can someone malicious. Imagine having your phone bricked because you viewed the wrong PDF on some website. The update is a very good thing.
That's true. Although recently jailbreakme got some legal footing about the legality of jail-breaking a phone, the way they did it was an issue, so it's good that the hole was broken.
Another good example, not of bricking a phone, was shown on the UK tv news last night - of an example app on Android being able to record arbitrary audio after performing a similar hack.
So although this says it's anti-jailbreak, that's just secondary - it was one hell of a hole in the first place.
I thought this was Slashdot: Source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues
Not Apple HQ.
The PADDs similar tablets in general, not just Apples iPad.
I agree with you.
Think of all those e-readers out there, they too look like the smaller PADD's you see in TNG - albeit with black & white screens.
The only things an iPad (or iPhone/iPod touch) has more in common with PADD's are colour and touch sensitive screens, although some e-readers also have the latter.
I think there's too many iPad centric articles around at the moment, much to Apple's delight I think
GPS also provides an extremely accurate clock signal all around the world (after all, it comes from an atomic clock onboard the satellites). All you need is a GPS receiver. You can put most decent GPS modules into a "clock mode" where you lock their position on the globe and they optimize the calculations to give you the most accurate time.
I totally forgot about GPS. NMEA (the protocol used by most devices) do include the time, but it's been so long since I used one (my old handheld died years ago).
I wonder if the GPS unit's in most modern mobile phones can do the same?
NTP solved this ages ago by distributing atomic clock accuracy through the network.
The only problem this will solve is where it is a private network not connected to public NTP servers (or organizations that do not trust public NTP). In that case, they would most likely be able to afford a atomic clock.
An alternate would be radio clock signals like the old MSF Rugby signal in the UK (now moved to scotland)?
Ok not as accurate as an atomic clock but for most NTP cases it would be accurate enough
I think you might be surprised. Actually, the helicopters are often operated by the HM Coastguard; the base where I learned to fly also hosted a Coastguard search and rescue group, which ran a couple of helicopters.
Actually its a combination of all three.
Although HM Coastguard monitors the coastline, both the RAF and RN have air-sea rescue units for operational reasons (dating back to WWII) but handle the civilian rescues as part of their duties.
Apple II's were sold over here, they were just not that prevalent.
I didn't see an Apple II until the early 90's but now have one in storage - not used it in about 10 years.
I've got an Apple III as well and they are even rarer - didn't know they existed until I was given one instead of the owner dumping it.
That would come out during the test, as when I do them the responses are either spoken or written on a whiteboard with the candidate talking about the answer.
If, as you said, they know what function to use but don't know the exact parameters, thats no problem. If anything I would rather them to be that way.
I doubt any of us know every parameter for every function - I dont, but I would view knowing what functions are available as being more useful than knowing every parameter.
Are you sure a bout that? Seems to me you are just presenting another exam to them, which by your own definition, they know how to handle.
Not quite. With the exams, they have resources available to give them the answers (i.e. textbooks, MCSE Cram's etc), but with a test within the interview, they won't necessarily know the answer until they see the test.
The tests I use are more real world as they are usually based on a problem I have had within the previous couple of weeks, not something they would get from a text book but something they would know from experience.
When I've been holding interviews, I always make up a set of tests just to make sure what they put on their CV is accurate.
The number of times I've had someone put on their CV they can do something we are after, but in reality they know Sh*t about it, has only really come out when they do the test. It also helps to pick up those who are good at taking exams but don't know how to handle themselves in the real world.
Unlike the other professions, IT doesn't have a legal backing. i.e. lawyers and accountants have qualifications that are backed by some law or another so if they write bullshit on their CV then it can come back on them. Not with IT unfortunately.
> Like NetBeans?
>
> Sorry, but NetBeans has convinced me that even Sun selected specialist experts can't write a responsive GUI in Java. The reason why may be debateable, the fact is observable.
I agree with you. I actually use NetBeans all the time, and it's one of the things that's annoyed me the most that it becomes unresponsive, like during a refactor. Why the hell that's running in the EDT I don't know.
This does boil down to what I originally said about a lot of developers (and in this case Sun's own "experts") not following that simple rule.
Here I'm currently working on a Swing app that has a lot of network IO in it and I'm taking a lot of care to ensure that the GUI is responsive. The amount of extra code, negligible. It just takes a couple of extra minutes to think things through before typing it. Not that hard, and yet you get an app that doesn't piss off the users.