People always seem tout the Domsday Book as an example of how digital technology can never replace good old pen and paper.
By the time the original Domesday book was written, the technology used had been under refinement for what, six, seven thousand years? For how long had the BBC micro been around?
If you wanted to repeat the project today, would you pick an obscure new data storage format that might not be around for five years, let alone a thousand (say, Blu-ray[0] DVD?
I don't think so. You'd transcribe the data into plain old ASCII, perhaps UTF-8 if you wanted to preserve the original characters. Maybe make a version available that's marked up in XML if you want computers to parse/reason about the data within. Cryptographically sign the data, so that people can verify that their copy they hasn't been modified by some prankster, and make it available for download!
[0] That's another really annoying thing. The word "blue" has an E!! Damned marketing departments...
Except for every release of Microsoft Office since Office 97. And Visual Studio.NET and above. And of course.NET applications, which use the classic UI by default. And don't forget Media Player! Not to mention every third party DVD player I've seen on the platform. Oh, and Winamp.
I won't even go in to detail about how every single App on Windows seems to invent its own standard dialog boxes.
At the end of the day, if you want to use KDE, but find yourself running Gnome apps, then it sounds like you have a problem with KDE. The same is true if you are in the opposite situation.
There used to be an excellent page documenting every known flaw in IE, along with its severity and whether it had been fixed. Most informative were details on an (unfixed) problem with IE's handling of SSL authentication dating back to THE YEAR 2000. Unfortunatly the site authors removed it after MS announced their Trusted Computing initiative, in the intrest of giving MS a break.
Hah! Exploit after exploit continue to be revealed. Are they even bothering to fix the recent drag-and-drop exploit, 'cos my fully patched XP machine at home is still vulnerable.
I post to ask if any one knows of a similar site that is still updated; I have googled and came across http://continue.to/trie, but the layout isn't great and basically I want the old site back.:(
Judging from the experiences of the gamers I know, the reason the PS2 is the most popular console is because EVERYBODY HAS TO BUY BLOODY THREE OF THEM!
Erm, any crappy third party program can bring down your system. One way is to do the equivalent of:(){:|:&};:. You're being naive if you don't think there are many others.
I believe the original poster was referring to your distribution controlling the software that it makes available to you. Therefore all software is first party.
Of course, you can download whatever you want yourself, in which case you obtain it via a third party. But if you use apt (or equivalent) to install software from your distributor's archive, then it's first party.
The article states that recovering the bomb would have cost between $5,000,000 and $11,000,000. This is money they could easily have made back by selling it to Saddam Hussein, with the added bonus that it would have given Bush a weapon of mass destruction to actually _find_ in Iraq.
Given the state of software on the platform, it comes as no surprise that Windows programmers make use of functions like sprintf. *ducks, runs*
But seriously, people, use snprintf. The same for all the other unsafe string handling functions in the C library--use the 'n' variant of the function that accepts a maximum buffer length.
You wouldn't use gets to input a string, would you? I hope...
The person who thought of this option should be shot, and there is a special place in hell set aside for any marketing moron or PHB who decrees that it be enabled by default for all a company's laptops.
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We _would_ be a lot better off WRT child obesity. :)
Storing all this data on a RAID of cheap IDE devices would be a mistake similar in magnitude to that made by the digital domesday project. :)
People always seem tout the Domsday Book as an example of how digital technology can never replace good old pen and paper.
By the time the original Domesday book was written, the technology used had been under refinement for what, six, seven thousand years? For how long had the BBC micro been around?
If you wanted to repeat the project today, would you pick an obscure new data storage format that might not be around for five years, let alone a thousand (say, Blu-ray[0] DVD?
I don't think so. You'd transcribe the data into plain old ASCII, perhaps UTF-8 if you wanted to preserve the original characters. Maybe make a version available that's marked up in XML if you want computers to parse/reason about the data within. Cryptographically sign the data, so that people can verify that their copy they hasn't been modified by some prankster, and make it available for download!
[0] That's another really annoying thing. The word "blue" has an E!! Damned marketing departments...
Are there really *any* digital cameras that don't act as universally compatible USB Mass Storage devices?
:)
Apart from firewire gear obviously
They're not people they are foreigners, haven't you being paying attention?
Maybe not for the first few terms. But perhaps eventually candidates would get the message, and the world would become a better place!
Except for every release of Microsoft Office since Office 97. And Visual Studio.NET and above. And of course .NET applications, which use the classic UI by default. And don't forget Media Player! Not to mention every third party DVD player I've seen on the platform. Oh, and Winamp.
I won't even go in to detail about how every single App on Windows seems to invent its own standard dialog boxes.
At the end of the day, if you want to use KDE, but find yourself running Gnome apps, then it sounds like you have a problem with KDE. The same is true if you are in the opposite situation.
Appeal to greed? :)
And for requiring passports for internal flights.
Please mod up as 'funny'.
dont go there nobody wants that
sweet. :)
There used to be an excellent page documenting every known flaw in IE, along with its severity and whether it had been fixed. Most informative were details on an (unfixed) problem with IE's handling of SSL authentication dating back to THE YEAR 2000. Unfortunatly the site authors removed it after MS announced their Trusted Computing initiative, in the intrest of giving MS a break.
:(
Hah! Exploit after exploit continue to be revealed. Are they even bothering to fix the recent drag-and-drop exploit, 'cos my fully patched XP machine at home is still vulnerable.
I post to ask if any one knows of a similar site that is still updated; I have googled and came across http://continue.to/trie, but the layout isn't great and basically I want the old site back.
You are infringing on my patent. Please pay me ten million dollars.
Ouch.
rm -- '-rf *'
correct?
Yes, yes we are.
Judging from the experiences of the gamers I know, the reason the PS2 is the most popular console is because EVERYBODY HAS TO BUY BLOODY THREE OF THEM!
Erm, any crappy third party program can bring down your system. One way is to do the equivalent of :(){ :|:&};:. You're being naive if you don't think there are many others.
I believe the original poster was referring to your distribution controlling the software that it makes available to you. Therefore all software is first party.
Of course, you can download whatever you want yourself, in which case you obtain it via a third party. But if you use apt (or equivalent) to install software from your distributor's archive, then it's first party.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/fmg2. rpm
Rpm appears to be a file containing the RTSP url where real player accesses the stream.
> Similarly, this is why (thank goodness) ActiveX
:)
> never caught on save for a few custom corporate apps.
Not to mention millions of spyware products.
The article states that recovering the bomb would have cost between $5,000,000 and $11,000,000. This is money they could easily have made back by selling it to Saddam Hussein, with the added bonus that it would have given Bush a weapon of mass destruction to actually _find_ in Iraq.
Are those marketing msec and ratios though? Or figures that have actually been proven in a lab?
But seriously, people, use snprintf. The same for all the other unsafe string handling functions in the C library--use the 'n' variant of the function that accepts a maximum buffer length.
You wouldn't use gets to input a string, would you? I hope...
It's off by default on Apple laptops.
The person who thought of this option should be shot, and there is a special place in hell set aside for any marketing moron or PHB who decrees that it be enabled by default for all a company's laptops.
The obvious flaw in your logic is that no one is using MSIE and spoofing their user agent. What would be the point?