Whilst the Devs are busy arguing, Microsoft is busy inventing their next browser-os tie in (After receiving carte-blanche from the US Bush/Cheney regime).
There was an episode of nip/tuck last season that had the partners wanting to split the business up after an altrication, as the "divorce" attorney pointed out, when something like that happens cusomters don't know who to turn to, they get confused and more often than not switch to the competition.
Now, the customers are PHB's thinking about maybe doing an enterprise deployment of firefox. But, they will now be worried that if the foundation that backs it splits up, there will be no further development and it will stagnate.
You and I both that's not true, but PHB's aren't like you or I, they don't possess common sense, they are like scared springboks being chased by an,in this case imaginary, lion. They will panic and in the ensuing mess mandate nothing but IE to be used company wide.
This is bad because it will slow adoption of Firefox (people who use it at work may actually try it at home, like it and switch). We wan't people to switch to firefox because it's more standards compliant and, at the moment, more secure, which is a good thing(tm), not like this infighting, which is a bad thing(tm).
...last time I was in one of their stores (buying a cooker) it took a while to sort out the financing package (they had just finished moving over to a brand new integrated package called eclipse that handles everything from POS to backend inventory and were having a few teething problems), at one point the salesperson had to close down the app and go get a manager, at that point I saw that the only icons on the desktop were for eclipse (their custom app) and the openoffice.org products.
From the look of things it's a standard image on all machines so I would guess they've moved over to OO.o exclusively, at least in retail stores, I don't know about head/regional offices, but I'm sure they'll be following if it's a success.
...you worry more about how long it will take to compile.
Imagine the scenario: you've made a few changes to one of the kernel subsystems, you can now either:
Sit back and wait 20 minutes whilst compiling before you can test (but when you're testing the whole system is 1-2% faster)
Sit back and wait around 10 minutes for the compile
When you're compiling multiple times in a day the raw compiler performance matters more than the raw system performance.
That's also why some people never get the whole bootup time reduction idea, "But I keep my boxen up 24x7 and haven't rebooted for 3 years!".
Some of us reboot machines now and then when we change a config, the time it takes to come back up is important. Also, for a kernel hacker, do the changes you've made cause booting to hang?
...seriously, you can get a decent samsung B&W laser printed for next to nothing these days (and even less off eBay), toner lasts a long time (plus can be refilled once or twice if you don't mind making a mess outside somewhere), print quality is higher than on a ink-based printer - you'll be looking at spending a couple of cents a page (if that) compared to 20-30 cents a page with an ink based printer.
You can then keep the ink printer around for the rare times you need colour.
The other added bonus is that laser printers are invariably faster, so you'll waste less time printing as well.
...got one of those for around £140 a month ago, it's the AGP model and has dual DVI outputs.
This could be useful as having dual DVI would be good if you're going for two LCD displays. It also contains two high quality DVI-VGA converters that I'm using at the moment (waiting for my 2 19" lcd's to be delivered:o).
I actually don't let NView (NVidia app) control it, I let windows XP span the display for me, one start menu (with NView you can have it on both screens, I prefer it on my primary display only).
Great for programming (API docs open on second monitor), and for watching TV/DVD's whilst I'm "working";o)
...but this was a physical break-in in which a computer was actually stolen from a building.
Just goes to show that security policies need to be multi-faceted, not just concerned with firewalling from the internet. You need to look at physical access to machines, both from employees and potential intruders.
We co-lo in several data centres and all of them, without fail, have physical security that would put the american embassy in kabul or baghdad to shame;o)
it's about stealing people's identities (by obtaining as much information about them) and setting up loans etc. in their name. The criminals then don't repay, the loan company comes knocking on the victims door and they then have to spend time and money reinstating their good name and credit rating.
Identity theifs really are the lowest of the low as far as "white collar" crime goes, I hope this guy rots in a stinking cell for as long as possible.
...on my phone (E700), the front screen is a small OLED. The thing you notice immediately is that it can be viewed perfectly from any angle (compared, for instance, to the TFT on the inside screen which has the normal LCD viewing range). Since it is light emitting (rather than requiring a backlight) the black is also pretty much as black as a CRT.
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I always thought a bayesian (adult) web-site content filter would be a good idea, a la netnanny but without a canned list of "bad" url's.
In fact, I may just go and make a ff extension that does just that, hmmm, mebbe call it "NNSFW"?
UK law would expressly prohibit that kind of statement. All goods have to be offered without the need for data to be shared.
For this to be enforcable in the UK you would have a checkbox: [ ] I agree to the EULA, [ ] I am ok with my data being collected. The EULA part would be a necessity for installation, the data collection part would have to be optional.
The only case where this isn't gospel IIRC is when it comes to debt etc. wrt credit reference agencies, but that I believe is a caveat in the credit laws.
I could, of course, be completely wrong as I'm drunk (hey, it's new years), so caveat emptor as always and IANALBIPTBOO/. (I am not a lawyer but I pretend to be one on/.)
...some of the stuff that Banksy does (http://www.banksy.co.uk) is absolute genius. He now gets commissions for doing works, has put on an art show (which prompted a rival tagger to scrawl "Banksy is a f**king sellout" over the entrance, which Banksy decided to leave there as people thought it was part of the show!).
...our proprietary system is used on around 400 sites, ranging from small mom and pop stores to larger online etailers (not in the league of amazon by a long-shot, but turnover of several mil a year easily). We realized early on that:
Lots of different vendors wanted lots of different payment service providers (some were refused at certain providers but agreed to at others, some had to go with a certain one for their merchant account etc.)
Lots of these different payment service providers offer similar types of interface options
Sometimes payment providers go down, sometimes they go bust (myPaySystems), sometimes they get ddos'd
The upshot of this is that we designed our system to be able to:
use pretty much any payment provider out there (we haven't been presented with one that we couldn't integrate with)
use multiple payment providers if needed (i.e. nochex vs paypal for the smaller sites)
change primary payment provider in less than 10 seconds (a single entry in the site config is changed and bam, new payment processor live).
This isn't the kind of thing that's particularly fun to backport into an existing project, or stress free (the quality of most providers documentation is, with rare exceptions like worldpay and protx, shit) but it can really pay dividends in situations like yours.
....simply type some stuff in a text box somewhere, select it and select delete, deletes it. No, I don't know why they bothered to put it there either *sigh*.
No wonder the NHS is in dire straights at the moment financially. They probably gave the gig to a "consultancy company" who would end up charging them 500k+, selling them stuff they don't need and all this time farming it out to the lowest bidder and therefore producing shoddy goods that don't work and further tarnish the reputation of IT in the NHS.
Re:I do the same thing...just with a dvd recorder.
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It's the Philips DVDR 70, does dvd+r +rw, very easy to program (simply go into a menu and either enter the video+ programming number or select a date and time from the on-screen menu, everything is done through a snazzy looking menu that appears on your TV).
It's got s-video, scart and comp in, scart out, audio out, svideo out.
All in all a very nice machine indeed, it's crazy how cheap it is now.
...why not make the jump to a system meant to replace CVS's centralized model, such as subversion. Forks are very easy to do, truly atomic commits, CVS to SVN repository converter, similar command line params to CVS etc. etc.
Our current repo is 9 gigs and works beautifully.
I do the same thing...just with a dvd recorder...
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...one of the cheap phillips ones, only cost £140.00 and writes on DVD RW's. You can erase and reuse those around 1000 times, a few more than most VHS tapes I've ever come accross.
I record a show, I can pop it out and take it round a friends house to watch (everyone I know has a DVD player). And when I'm done, I simply select "erase disc" from the menu and program something else in to record.
...Mozilla need not support firefox 0.9.3 for two very good reasons. First, it is a pre-release piece of software (or preview if you prefer), second the cost of "entry" to obtain Firefox 1.0 is merely a 4-7 MB download.
If Microsoft say they will support older operating systems (i.e. Windows 2000) then they need to support it 100% (not 90%, for the extra 10% upgrade to XP that they are now). Lots of people paid good money for Windows 2000 and were led to expect full support, including security updates, for a substantial period. This period has not passed and as such Microsoft is re-negging their side of things.
I tried a few methods, mozilla's import (strips any html emails down to a pseudo text only format (the text bit of a rtf file I believe).
I then setup a simple imap server and tried to drag the emails from outlook into the imap folder I mounted. Big mistake, outlook "hangs" after a random number of messages (always less than 30) so I ditched that.
outlook2mac from littlemachines looked good and was only $10.00 but I wanted something free.
In the end I downloaded a 30 day trial of communigate pro from stalker software plus their mapi outlook connector. Setup the account and checked "convert outlook rtf into html" and copied stuff accross. I then connected to the imap server that comes with communigate pro using thunderbird and copied the stuff to its folders (and thus converted it to mbox).
...this was pretty much everything done, final testing underway release. This is the actual, bona-fide, spread far and wide, it's finally 1.0, woohoo, etc. etc. release.
...that used to be called Jalapeno that bootstrapped itself with IIRC less than 200 lines of C, just to start the process. After that, everything to do with the JVM was java itself.
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Whilst the Devs are busy arguing, Microsoft is busy inventing their next browser-os tie in (After receiving carte-blanche from the US Bush/Cheney regime).
,in this case imaginary, lion. They will panic and in the ensuing mess mandate nothing but IE to be used company wide.
There was an episode of nip/tuck last season that had the partners wanting to split the business up after an altrication, as the "divorce" attorney pointed out, when something like that happens cusomters don't know who to turn to, they get confused and more often than not switch to the competition.
Now, the customers are PHB's thinking about maybe doing an enterprise deployment of firefox. But, they will now be worried that if the foundation that backs it splits up, there will be no further development and it will stagnate.
You and I both that's not true, but PHB's aren't like you or I, they don't possess common sense, they are like scared springboks being chased by an
This is bad because it will slow adoption of Firefox (people who use it at work may actually try it at home, like it and switch). We wan't people to switch to firefox because it's more standards compliant and, at the moment, more secure, which is a good thing(tm), not like this infighting, which is a bad thing(tm).
...last time I was in one of their stores (buying a cooker) it took a while to sort out the financing package (they had just finished moving over to a brand new integrated package called eclipse that handles everything from POS to backend inventory and were having a few teething problems), at one point the salesperson had to close down the app and go get a manager, at that point I saw that the only icons on the desktop were for eclipse (their custom app) and the openoffice.org products.
From the look of things it's a standard image on all machines so I would guess they've moved over to OO.o exclusively, at least in retail stores, I don't know about head/regional offices, but I'm sure they'll be following if it's a success.
...The correct attribution is:
"UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group"
(http://www.unix.org/trademark.html)
Imagine the scenario: you've made a few changes to one of the kernel subsystems, you can now either:
- Sit back and wait 20 minutes whilst compiling before you can test (but when you're testing the whole system is 1-2% faster)
- Sit back and wait around 10 minutes for the compile
When you're compiling multiple times in a day the raw compiler performance matters more than the raw system performance.That's also why some people never get the whole bootup time reduction idea, "But I keep my boxen up 24x7 and haven't rebooted for 3 years!".
Some of us reboot machines now and then when we change a config, the time it takes to come back up is important. Also, for a kernel hacker, do the changes you've made cause booting to hang?
...seriously, you can get a decent samsung B&W laser printed for next to nothing these days (and even less off eBay), toner lasts a long time (plus can be refilled once or twice if you don't mind making a mess outside somewhere), print quality is higher than on a ink-based printer - you'll be looking at spending a couple of cents a page (if that) compared to 20-30 cents a page with an ink based printer.
You can then keep the ink printer around for the rare times you need colour.
The other added bonus is that laser printers are invariably faster, so you'll waste less time printing as well.
...got one of those for around £140 a month ago, it's the AGP model and has dual DVI outputs.
:o).
;o)
This could be useful as having dual DVI would be good if you're going for two LCD displays. It also contains two high quality DVI-VGA converters that I'm using at the moment (waiting for my 2 19" lcd's to be delivered
I actually don't let NView (NVidia app) control it, I let windows XP span the display for me, one start menu (with NView you can have it on both screens, I prefer it on my primary display only).
Great for programming (API docs open on second monitor), and for watching TV/DVD's whilst I'm "working"
...but this was a physical break-in in which a computer was actually stolen from a building.
;o)
Just goes to show that security policies need to be multi-faceted, not just concerned with firewalling from the internet. You need to look at physical access to machines, both from employees and potential intruders.
We co-lo in several data centres and all of them, without fail, have physical security that would put the american embassy in kabul or baghdad to shame
it's about stealing people's identities (by obtaining as much information about them) and setting up loans etc. in their name. The criminals then don't repay, the loan company comes knocking on the victims door and they then have to spend time and money reinstating their good name and credit rating.
Identity theifs really are the lowest of the low as far as "white collar" crime goes, I hope this guy rots in a stinking cell for as long as possible.
...on my phone (E700), the front screen is a small OLED. The thing you notice immediately is that it can be viewed perfectly from any angle (compared, for instance, to the TFT on the inside screen which has the normal LCD viewing range). Since it is light emitting (rather than requiring a backlight) the black is also pretty much as black as a CRT.
I always thought a bayesian (adult) web-site content filter would be a good idea, a la netnanny but without a canned list of "bad" url's.
In fact, I may just go and make a ff extension that does just that, hmmm, mebbe call it "NNSFW"?
UK law would expressly prohibit that kind of statement. All goods have to be offered without the need for data to be shared.
/.)
For this to be enforcable in the UK you would have a checkbox: [ ] I agree to the EULA, [ ] I am ok with my data being collected. The EULA part would be a necessity for installation, the data collection part would have to be optional.
The only case where this isn't gospel IIRC is when it comes to debt etc. wrt credit reference agencies, but that I believe is a caveat in the credit laws.
I could, of course, be completely wrong as I'm drunk (hey, it's new years), so caveat emptor as always and IANALBIPTBOO/. (I am not a lawyer but I pretend to be one on
...some of the stuff that Banksy does (http://www.banksy.co.uk) is absolute genius. He now gets commissions for doing works, has put on an art show (which prompted a rival tagger to scrawl "Banksy is a f**king sellout" over the entrance, which Banksy decided to leave there as people thought it was part of the show!).
One of my faves is this little ditty, yes its vandalism, but just look at it, it's damn funny! http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/outdoors.html
are orders of magnitude more complicated than telnet and finger, that's why.
where the rabbit is for duracell.
- Lots of different vendors wanted lots of different payment service providers (some were refused at certain providers but agreed to at others, some had to go with a certain one for their merchant account etc.)
- Lots of these different payment service providers offer similar types of interface options
- Sometimes payment providers go down, sometimes they go bust (myPaySystems), sometimes they get ddos'd
The upshot of this is that we designed our system to be able to:- use pretty much any payment provider out there (we haven't been presented with one that we couldn't integrate with)
- use multiple payment providers if needed (i.e. nochex vs paypal for the smaller sites)
- change primary payment provider in less than 10 seconds (a single entry in the site config is changed and bam, new payment processor live).
This isn't the kind of thing that's particularly fun to backport into an existing project, or stress free (the quality of most providers documentation is, with rare exceptions like worldpay and protx, shit) but it can really pay dividends in situations like yours.....simply type some stuff in a text box somewhere, select it and select delete, deletes it. No, I don't know why they bothered to put it there either *sigh*.
...and didn't get it because we were "too cheap"!
No wonder the NHS is in dire straights at the moment financially. They probably gave the gig to a "consultancy company" who would end up charging them 500k+, selling them stuff they don't need and all this time farming it out to the lowest bidder and therefore producing shoddy goods that don't work and further tarnish the reputation of IT in the NHS.
It's the Philips DVDR 70, does dvd+r +rw, very easy to program (simply go into a menu and either enter the video+ programming number or select a date and time from the on-screen menu, everything is done through a snazzy looking menu that appears on your TV).
It's got s-video, scart and comp in, scart out, audio out, svideo out.
All in all a very nice machine indeed, it's crazy how cheap it is now.
...why not make the jump to a system meant to replace CVS's centralized model, such as subversion. Forks are very easy to do, truly atomic commits, CVS to SVN repository converter, similar command line params to CVS etc. etc.
Our current repo is 9 gigs and works beautifully.
...one of the cheap phillips ones, only cost £140.00 and writes on DVD RW's. You can erase and reuse those around 1000 times, a few more than most VHS tapes I've ever come accross.
I record a show, I can pop it out and take it round a friends house to watch (everyone I know has a DVD player). And when I'm done, I simply select "erase disc" from the menu and program something else in to record.
...Mozilla need not support firefox 0.9.3 for two very good reasons. First, it is a pre-release piece of software (or preview if you prefer), second the cost of "entry" to obtain Firefox 1.0 is merely a 4-7 MB download.
If Microsoft say they will support older operating systems (i.e. Windows 2000) then they need to support it 100% (not 90%, for the extra 10% upgrade to XP that they are now). Lots of people paid good money for Windows 2000 and were led to expect full support, including security updates, for a substantial period. This period has not passed and as such Microsoft is re-negging their side of things.
...a search for Phil John now yields two results before my slashdot user page. :o(
I tried a few methods, mozilla's import (strips any html emails down to a pseudo text only format (the text bit of a rtf file I believe).
I then setup a simple imap server and tried to drag the emails from outlook into the imap folder I mounted. Big mistake, outlook "hangs" after a random number of messages (always less than 30) so I ditched that.
outlook2mac from littlemachines looked good and was only $10.00 but I wanted something free.
In the end I downloaded a 30 day trial of communigate pro from stalker software plus their mapi outlook connector. Setup the account and checked "convert outlook rtf into html" and copied stuff accross. I then connected to the imap server that comes with communigate pro using thunderbird and copied the stuff to its folders (and thus converted it to mbox).
Convoluted but it did the trick!
...this was pretty much everything done, final testing underway release. This is the actual, bona-fide, spread far and wide, it's finally 1.0, woohoo, etc. etc. release.
...that used to be called Jalapeno that bootstrapped itself with IIRC less than 200 lines of C, just to start the process. After that, everything to do with the JVM was java itself.