Well that's not my experience. I have noticed this failure of auto-updating on several machines in our office...needs a closer look then, there must be something else going on.
The Windows update system is undoubtedly a step forward by the M$ behemoth, but it has one crucial failing as I see it...the system will only look for an update when it initialises - after boot-up and possibly on log-off / log-on as well.
If you have the habit of leaving the machine on for extended periods, you will not receive notification of new updates until you cycle power (possibly log out and back in too...). Lots of Wusers do this (leave their computer on), which may leave them thinking they are well protected when in fact their machines may need urgent patching.
...you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
Hey bud, the chances of "converting" me just lowered some more. Don't call me a fly. Anyway, if you want to "catch" me, use beer instead. Works better...
I heard about this new worm on the radio this morning before coming in to work. Actually my first thought was that's a bit early for the mainstream news channels to cotton on to a network threat, they are bound to have their underpants on their heads...still......I duly check the story and get the virus descriptions for Sasser, and I see that I am already protected. I use Microsoft XP Pro. I am on the network and I may have left my machine on over the weekend too. No Problem though, windows update has already taken care of my machine and I am patched.
They have been shipping auto-update for some while in their OS, you can check any machine from what, 98, onwards online at the website, the patch install is unobtrusive and intuitive. I think that in this respect (not necessarily others) MS has at least caught up with automating updates on systems and that their system is working very well. It's the computing public who need to understand that any OS should be regularily patched - this should be hammered home in computing 101.
How? You are parentless, top of the tree, primary node.
Or i got my slash settings wrong.
Or you want to mod the original article down? Yeah, that might be a useful new feature. Can we do that, slash? What if we think the article is a troll? Can we moderate the original article too?
It uses MySQL. So doesn't that mean it gets a lathering from the DB cult here at slash? Cue tedious theoretical discussion from hightoned types defending their $$$ investment in tech education...
PHP is almost certainly less featured than Perl - I think you could say that about any computer language, Perl is THE ultimate featured language. And that is its strength, and downfall. The huge featureset and, more importantly, the range of programming style that this allows make it a bitch to take over working on other people's code.
PHP is primarily an inline web page scripting engine and it fits logically in an HTML document. By comparison, Perl does it inside out and the HTML fits in the Perl program, making it harder to follow the flow of the page. OK, Perl::Mason and other similar modules improve the situation - this illustrates the utility of Perl, of course: the likelihood that there is already a functional module that you can simply bolt on to your Perl engine to get the job done. The module library that has grown up alongside Perl is its greatest strength, I think.
That said, PHP has a superb set of functions and I found when I started to use it a couple of years ago that I could guess function names and would be spot on about half the time.
Slashdot is still on Perl because it was written in Perl and it works. Rewriting the codebase to suit some notion of a better featured language is a waste of time. Improving performance - maybe...but that's a mod_perl issue not a language issue per se.
The machines should of course be patched up to date, but I think the real failing here is the sysadmins not enforcing secure protocols - it doesn't take much to disable the telnet and ftp servers and make people use ssh and scp, etc instead.
At the British university where I often work, they only recently enforced the switch to secure protocols for remote access to the campus network. This meant users switching from their familiar IMAP, TELNET and FTP acess routes to the SSH methods. Whilst the super-users were able to switch over painlessly - in fact most already had done, I had for sure! - it was much harder for the general user who simply uses their computer as a way to get their job done. Simply pointing people to a set of well written instruction pages guiding them through the install and config of Putty or (better) SSHsecureshell was not sufficient. Generally, an admin had to come over and do this for them. Add to the mix significant numbers of remote workers and the switch over was definitely non-trivial and required significant attention from the network support team.
Disregarding the rest of the bollox you are talking as it has been correctly modded as flammable, I would just like to ask for a link or something so that I can see a radar transcript
Coz nuh uh, I don't think so. But i could be wrong, and it might be beautiful to see that array of analogue data transcribed to what i assume was French. Of course, it wouldn't read so good in any other language - we are, after all, talking about the language of love.
We have to have 2 compiled version of the COM object with different a username/password and swap that object on the server every two hours just to get it to work.
Either you assume that extension.jpg is a jpeg without requesting it, or you request it and find out - which I would call determining the filetype (or at least the server's idea of the MIME type), in which case it doesn't matter what the file extension is, you are going to have to request it anyway. And by so doing, you "poo poo" the assumption file extension ==> file type .
It isn't stupid to say google will leave it alone if you just ask. Google will. Google will obey robots.txt.
So, given this, and given that the problem way back in this thread was that Opera was allegedly sending links to Google for indexing, the link, in this context, can remain private. Of course, that isn't the only mechanism by which a URL might escape from your careful private handling. But given the original problem, robots.txt solves it. I have lots of stuff on the web that is effectively hidden because it isn't findable. Any time I send a link by email or IM to a friend, I run the risk of someone farming it and letting my secret out. But it doesn't happen. And in anycase, I don't care if they do, or else I would do more to secure it...
I'm not sure what you mean by that. For e-mail to be recieved, it eventualy arrives at the recipient's SMTP server on port 25.
No, you are not sure. In that respect, you are correct. In other respects, you have got your underpants on your head mate.
Recipients do not, generally, have a SMTP server.
For email to be transferred it is sent from a client to an MTA (mail transfer agent). The MTA will either, depending on the routing path, deliver it to another MTA or to the recipient mailbox. When you log on to receive mail you do not connect using SMTP (port 25) - you connect using IMAP or POP3 or some such. When you send email you will need to be able to access port 25 on a remote machine - the MTA. As a residential user typically you should only be able to access your ISP's MTA and this server will transfer your email on to the wider net.
I have used a dozen odd ISPs over the last year and in all cases, access to the MTA was blocked from anywhere except within their networks - ie with an IP address from one of their blocks. The only open relay I have stumbled across in the last 2 years was in a British University - which is traditional, I believe.
Hygiene. I think you meant hygiene. Hardly worth pointing it out to you I fear, but I was cruising this thread at Ignorance +5 so I have a duty. Wittlessly, you make the point for off-shoring your job. I hope you like flipping burgers...
I don't work in the tech sector but I have often dealt with Indian technicians who do technical support for a company that I am involved with. I have found the quality of their work to be consistently poor. Specifically:
In other words, "I am not a racist but..." ie "Alert: racist comment coming..."
Worst example: A simple hardware problem...
That is not a simple hardware problem. It might sound simple to you - once the problem was tracked down. An overheating problem caused by insufficient air circulation? To me, that sounds tricky to diagnose straight off. Back-up the data, reinstall the OS - standard procedure. Your tech advised you well in my opinion. And your country (I assume you are a US national) designed this shit, remember. (Actually your country *hosted* the intellects that designed this shit, much of the intellectual effort of the US universities is the product of either guest or immigrant persons - just check out the surnames on high tech academic research papers coming outa the US).
So it actually turns DSCNnnn into WEDDINGxxx (n) (kinda, scuse the poor notation for this) which is neat but not that very neat. Maybe in Windows 2203...
Insightful? Splutter, choke, coffee splatter on VDU.
There so many things wrong with this post it's hard to decide where to bite. And at AC too...I feel foolish even typing this, but...
In the context of an image file, the datum(*) is the image. The metadata is information that is describing that datum. Whether it is stored in the file or outside the file is irrelevant, conceptually. I could have a text file, then I could write some metadata describing the text across various defined categories (Dublin core fields, perhaps). I could store this in another file. Then I could concat the two files into one. What do I have? One file, two files, doesn't matter essentially. Conceptually I have a datum, and metadata. Regardless. To me, storing metadata in the same file as the datum itself is MUCH MUCH more sensible as it keeps everything together. You can't lose or unlink to associated files / databases etc. Unfortunately, the format du jour, the JFIF (JPEG basically) is not very rich in this regard. SPIFF is way better, as is GIF and PNG The concept itself is very, very good and has not yet come of age. The file formats are improving their capability in this regard.
A great search capability can be made with internal metadata just as easily. More so, perhaps. There are only a few image formats to worry about, so it isn't that hard to support them all.
And, files can be objects, dumbass. At least, they absolutely can be static representations of objects, dumberass.
On a personal note, you are a ignorant jerk. Go away. Irritant.
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perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print decode_base64 "dGhpcyBlbmNvZGluZyBpcyBiZXR0ZXIgY296IGl0IGVuZHMgd 2l0aCBhIGNhcnJpYWdlIHJldHVybgo="'
Well that's not my experience. I have noticed this failure of auto-updating on several machines in our office...needs a closer look then, there must be something else going on.
If you have the habit of leaving the machine on for extended periods, you will not receive notification of new updates until you cycle power (possibly log out and back in too...). Lots of Wusers do this (leave their computer on), which may leave them thinking they are well protected when in fact their machines may need urgent patching.
Ahhh, open source... if only they'd iron out the bugs and make it easier to use...
That's a one-liner for 99%[*] of the OS offerings out there.
[*] ymmv
Oh I'm gonna get it, now I'm gonna get it
Hey bud, the chances of "converting" me just lowered some more. Don't call me a fly. Anyway, if you want to "catch" me, use beer instead. Works better...
I heard about this new worm on the radio this morning before coming in to work. Actually my first thought was that's a bit early for the mainstream news channels to cotton on to a network threat, they are bound to have their underpants on their heads...still... ...I duly check the story and get the virus descriptions for Sasser, and I see that I am already protected. I use Microsoft XP Pro. I am on the network and I may have left my machine on over the weekend too. No Problem though, windows update has already taken care of my machine and I am patched.
They have been shipping auto-update for some while in their OS, you can check any machine from what, 98, onwards online at the website, the patch install is unobtrusive and intuitive. I think that in this respect (not necessarily others) MS has at least caught up with automating updates on systems and that their system is working very well. It's the computing public who need to understand that any OS should be regularily patched - this should be hammered home in computing 101.
Or i got my slash settings wrong.
Or you want to mod the original article down? Yeah, that might be a useful new feature. Can we do that, slash? What if we think the article is a troll? Can we moderate the original article too?
It uses MySQL. So doesn't that mean it gets a lathering from the DB cult here at slash? Cue tedious theoretical discussion from hightoned types defending their $$$ investment in tech education...
You really need to learn RDBMS theory.
and
I do find it interesting that Linux users like to lord over Windows users
Can we have the insight please?
Damn i replied to AC i gotta stop that...
What happened to them?
it's 11:59...
Ahem, PHP and Perl cannot be so glibly compared.
PHP is almost certainly less featured than Perl - I think you could say that about any computer language, Perl is THE ultimate featured language. And that is its strength, and downfall. The huge featureset and, more importantly, the range of programming style that this allows make it a bitch to take over working on other people's code.
PHP is primarily an inline web page scripting engine and it fits logically in an HTML document. By comparison, Perl does it inside out and the HTML fits in the Perl program, making it harder to follow the flow of the page. OK, Perl::Mason and other similar modules improve the situation - this illustrates the utility of Perl, of course: the likelihood that there is already a functional module that you can simply bolt on to your Perl engine to get the job done. The module library that has grown up alongside Perl is its greatest strength, I think.
That said, PHP has a superb set of functions and I found when I started to use it a couple of years ago that I could guess function names and would be spot on about half the time.
Slashdot is still on Perl because it was written in Perl and it works. Rewriting the codebase to suit some notion of a better featured language is a waste of time. Improving performance - maybe...but that's a mod_perl issue not a language issue per se.
it's 11:59, I wanna stay alive
Damn, I thought he said barbells. I thought he was a sturgeon.
At the British university where I often work, they only recently enforced the switch to secure protocols for remote access to the campus network. This meant users switching from their familiar IMAP, TELNET and FTP acess routes to the SSH methods. Whilst the super-users were able to switch over painlessly - in fact most already had done, I had for sure! - it was much harder for the general user who simply uses their computer as a way to get their job done. Simply pointing people to a set of well written instruction pages guiding them through the install and config of Putty or (better) SSHsecureshell was not sufficient. Generally, an admin had to come over and do this for them. Add to the mix significant numbers of remote workers and the switch over was definitely non-trivial and required significant attention from the network support team.
You need to get out some more.
sourceAlso - Vancouver? Santander? Bergen?( > 300days with rain per year!) Just a few that spring to my mind.
Maybe you might consider your own private navy so you can shoot down any comments that pass way over your head?
Disregarding the rest of the bollox you are talking as it has been correctly modded as flammable, I would just like to ask for a link or something so that I can see a radar transcript
Coz nuh uh, I don't think so. But i could be wrong, and it might be beautiful to see that array of analogue data transcribed to what i assume was French. Of course, it wouldn't read so good in any other language - we are, after all, talking about the language of love.
This is good. Could be better...
Write a script that:
Oh I like it I like it very very much.
Either you assume that extension .jpg is a jpeg without requesting it, or you request it and find out - which I would call determining the filetype (or at least the server's idea of the MIME type), in which case it doesn't matter what the file extension is, you are going to have to request it anyway. And by so doing, you "poo poo" the assumption file extension ==> file type .
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Thankyou. That sounds more like it. Fuckin' idiot paranoics on this site. Really. I gotta stop reading their shit, it's bringing me down.
So, given this, and given that the problem way back in this thread was that Opera was allegedly sending links to Google for indexing, the link, in this context, can remain private. Of course, that isn't the only mechanism by which a URL might escape from your careful private handling. But given the original problem, robots.txt solves it. I have lots of stuff on the web that is effectively hidden because it isn't findable. Any time I send a link by email or IM to a friend, I run the risk of someone farming it and letting my secret out. But it doesn't happen. And in anycase, I don't care if they do, or else I would do more to secure it...
No, you are not sure. In that respect, you are correct. In other respects, you have got your underpants on your head mate.
Recipients do not, generally, have a SMTP server.
For email to be transferred it is sent from a client to an MTA (mail transfer agent). The MTA will either, depending on the routing path, deliver it to another MTA or to the recipient mailbox. When you log on to receive mail you do not connect using SMTP (port 25) - you connect using IMAP or POP3 or some such. When you send email you will need to be able to access port 25 on a remote machine - the MTA. As a residential user typically you should only be able to access your ISP's MTA and this server will transfer your email on to the wider net.
I have used a dozen odd ISPs over the last year and in all cases, access to the MTA was blocked from anywhere except within their networks - ie with an IP address from one of their blocks. The only open relay I have stumbled across in the last 2 years was in a British University - which is traditional, I believe.
Hygiene. I think you meant hygiene. Hardly worth pointing it out to you I fear, but I was cruising this thread at Ignorance +5 so I have a duty. Wittlessly, you make the point for off-shoring your job. I hope you like flipping burgers...
In other words, "I am not a racist but..." ie "Alert: racist comment coming..."
Worst example: A simple hardware problem ...
That is not a simple hardware problem. It might sound simple to you - once the problem was tracked down. An overheating problem caused by insufficient air circulation? To me, that sounds tricky to diagnose straight off. Back-up the data, reinstall the OS - standard procedure. Your tech advised you well in my opinion. And your country (I assume you are a US national) designed this shit, remember. (Actually your country *hosted* the intellects that designed this shit, much of the intellectual effort of the US universities is the product of either guest or immigrant persons - just check out the surnames on high tech academic research papers coming outa the US).
2. Poor communications skills.
Ha. Sounds like the average American to me.
It's a little flaky, but useful for turning things like 'DSCnnnn' into 'wedding_nnnn'.
I started with:
and I select the lot, then rename the first file, replacing DSCN with "bettername"...And I get this:
So it actually turns DSCNnnn into WEDDINGxxx (n) (kinda, scuse the poor notation for this) which is neat but not that very neat. Maybe in Windows 2203...
There so many things wrong with this post it's hard to decide where to bite. And at AC too...I feel foolish even typing this, but...
In the context of an image file, the datum(*) is the image. The metadata is information that is describing that datum. Whether it is stored in the file or outside the file is irrelevant, conceptually. I could have a text file, then I could write some metadata describing the text across various defined categories (Dublin core fields, perhaps). I could store this in another file. Then I could concat the two files into one. What do I have? One file, two files, doesn't matter essentially. Conceptually I have a datum, and metadata. Regardless. To me, storing metadata in the same file as the datum itself is MUCH MUCH more sensible as it keeps everything together. You can't lose or unlink to associated files / databases etc. Unfortunately, the format du jour, the JFIF (JPEG basically) is not very rich in this regard. SPIFF is way better, as is GIF and PNG The concept itself is very, very good and has not yet come of age. The file formats are improving their capability in this regard.
A great search capability can be made with internal metadata just as easily. More so, perhaps. There are only a few image formats to worry about, so it isn't that hard to support them all.
And, files can be objects, dumbass. At least, they absolutely can be static representations of objects, dumberass.
On a personal note, you are a ignorant jerk. Go away. Irritant.
(* or data, as you prefer)
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