It wouldn't surprise me if it's in development at the moment, although I think the more likely solution is to make it an addon for the Google Appliances they're already selling.
Because if they had to drink *real* pints, then they'd have time to realise that the drink that had been served in them was slightly coloured water, rather then beer.
I don't usually reply to ACs, but this is so unbelievably misguided I feel I have to.
1. IIS won't run on Win ME. 2. This sort of security hole could just easily happen on any web platform - ASP, PHP,.Net, Java, even Rails (yup - it is possible to build an insecure Web 2.0 site!)
I havn't looked at the article, but I doubt that's going to help against someone determined. Sure - Joe Blogs who found the bug this time probably wouldn't have, but that's just an URL encoded string, which are trivial to decode (I believe PHP has an urldecode function for just that).
Never, ever, trust data provided by the user. If there's potential to cause trouble, somebody will do it, which is why the site should have been keeping track of who's application was being filled out on the server, probably in a session variable.
In that case you'll be glad to hear that last I checked they are given almost no weight by search engines - many years of keyword stuffing in meta tags has made their content completely worthless.
While a Mac OS X system can authenticate against an AD setup, the subject of this document is *OD* - or Open Directory. It's very similar, but it's not the same thing. An earlier post has pointed out that it can be done via Active Directory, but it's third party software.
At work we have both a Windows 2003 domain controller, which looks after authentication and file sharing for everybody, and a Mac OS X server, which provides the equivalent of group policies for the Apple machines used.
Sounds to me like you should try out Eve Online. I'm not a huge fan of MMOs myself, since I just don't have enough time to put into them, but I did get sucked into Eve for a couple of months.
The best comparison I can make is that it's Elite, but with real people running the galaxy, and you can't argue with that.
A mail server isn't that expensive to run, but if you're a spammer then it's going to need it's IP address changing on a regular basis, since it's going to get blacklisted frequently.
That's the advantage of a botnet - if you've got enough zombies in your network then there's no way they're all going to get blacklisted, and it's possible to replace nodes that have been quick enough that it won't make much difference.
That's one of the biggest advantages I see with AdWords. I work for a company where we have clients spending over £1000 per day on them, and the reason for that is the reporting tools you get.
You're able to see exactly which ad campaigns are bringing people to your website, and with a little bit of work you can even follow them right through to find out which ones are actually leading to a purchase, or whatever the desired outcome is (we have targets setup for actual online purchases, contact form fill outs, and brochure requests). Using the reporting tools you can see the value of each advert, in terms of how much money it's making you.
I'll second that - I bought a 12" iBook just before they released the MacBooks, and all it took to get upgraded was to call them up and ask for a returns number. They provided shipping, took it back, and shipped out a brand new MacBook to me.
I'd recommend getting the extended warranty (I think they call it AppleCare), since the one you get when you buy hardware is frankly pitiful - it's measured in days, not months. £100 for a new battery after drowning my laptop really pissed me off since it was less then 6 months old.
I (and lots of other people) think it's more likely they'll be adding support for 3G networks, which give us Europeans near broadband speeds just about anywhere, unlike wifi which is taking off but only slowly (largely because the phone networks would rather we all spent the money on their networks).
It'll also need multi-lingual support, since we don't all speak English.
Since it's running Mac OS, and Mac OS already has voice control built in I think it's a fairly safe bet it'll have voice dialing, and once it hits Europe it will be practically a requirement, since at least in the UK it is illegal to use a phone without hands free whilst driving.
But we *really* need to see a good standards based framework on the browser side, that applications can be written against.
Prototype (and Scriptaculous) do the job nicely for me. Sure, you still have to use Javascript, but that's really not as painful as it used to be - Prototype does a very nice job of abstracting away browser inconsistencies, and gives you a single API that you can be fairly sure will work wherever you try to use it.
Combined with JSON on the server side, you can create some very responsive web applications.
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The phrase "grow up" springs to mind - they weren't being paid before, they aren't being paid now. Of course this assumes that the people being paid were being paid for things that they specialised in, and other people wouldn't be able to do.
I may just be lucky, but my 1 year old MacBook has survived admirably. It spends a lot of it's time loose in my rucksack, and other then an accident involving a bottle of water in the same bag, which shorted the battery, it's had no problems at all. I'd imagine that most laptops take issue with having their battery left in a pool of water for several hours, so I'm not going to hold my own stupidity against it.
It has also survived being dropped from standing height, and having a glass of wine spilled over it.
All that, and it'll run Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. It really has been my dream web development machine, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend one.
This is my first Apple machine, and since buying it I've managed to persuade work to swap my aging PC for a shiny new Mac Pro, which is quite simply a beast.
I work for a company that (amongst other things... please don't shoot me) does SEO, and sitemaps are possibly one of the best things Google have come up with.
You can create (or more likely generate) an XML file describing each of the pages on your site, how often they're updated, and any meta data. It also allows you to ping Google when the site changes, causing you to be added to the queue for indexing.
I'm still amazed everytime I hear about US operators cripling the phones they're selling. I can see why they do it - as misguided as it is, but it shocks me that the consumers in the US are willing to accept it.
In the UK (and as far as I know most of the world) we get our phones *without* features disabled. If I write an app I can simply bluetooth it over to my phone. The same for wallpapers, ringtones, MP3s, and anything else I want on there.
I'm sure there's more then one place to save in Dead Rising (although I may be wrong, I havn't played it in a while). Any toilets could be used as a save point, and I can't imagine a shopping mall with only one set of toilets.
Microsoft actually provide a pre-configured VM specifically for testing sites in IE 6 - I can't remember where I got it from, but a quick Googling should do the job.
I can second that - I'm a web developer and I'm typing on a quad-core Mac Pro at the moment.
At the moment I'm running Mac OS, 2 copies of Windows XP (one for IE6, one for IE7), TextMate, Photoshop, Illustrator, and assorted smaller utilities, and it's still flying along. According to activity monitor I'm currently using a total of 20% of the total capacity of this machine.
The only time I've ever managed to push even a single core to maximum usage is when encoding video to Flash, which at least in the current version isn't capable of using more then one processor - I'm hoping CS3 will change that, and I can really start pushing my machine.
I've heard it's possible to replace the hard disk yourself - just crack open the disk caddy, and drop in the disk of your choice. It'll be limited to 20GB (presumably 120GB once the Elites launch), but it's bound to be cheaper then paying the extra for a new caddy. It's also not nearly as impressive as the free SATA bay in PS3s, which is easily accessible and supported.
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It wouldn't surprise me if it's in development at the moment, although I think the more likely solution is to make it an addon for the Google Appliances they're already selling.
Because if they had to drink *real* pints, then they'd have time to realise that the drink that had been served in them was slightly coloured water, rather then beer.
I don't usually reply to ACs, but this is so unbelievably misguided I feel I have to.
.Net, Java, even Rails (yup - it is possible to build an insecure Web 2.0 site!)
1. IIS won't run on Win ME.
2. This sort of security hole could just easily happen on any web platform - ASP, PHP,
I havn't looked at the article, but I doubt that's going to help against someone determined. Sure - Joe Blogs who found the bug this time probably wouldn't have, but that's just an URL encoded string, which are trivial to decode (I believe PHP has an urldecode function for just that).
Never, ever, trust data provided by the user. If there's potential to cause trouble, somebody will do it, which is why the site should have been keeping track of who's application was being filled out on the server, probably in a session variable.
It's kinda like a card trick. "Pick a number, any number"
In that case you'll be glad to hear that last I checked they are given almost no weight by search engines - many years of keyword stuffing in meta tags has made their content completely worthless.
While a Mac OS X system can authenticate against an AD setup, the subject of this document is *OD* - or Open Directory. It's very similar, but it's not the same thing. An earlier post has pointed out that it can be done via Active Directory, but it's third party software.
At work we have both a Windows 2003 domain controller, which looks after authentication and file sharing for everybody, and a Mac OS X server, which provides the equivalent of group policies for the Apple machines used.
Sounds to me like you should try out Eve Online. I'm not a huge fan of MMOs myself, since I just don't have enough time to put into them, but I did get sucked into Eve for a couple of months.
The best comparison I can make is that it's Elite, but with real people running the galaxy, and you can't argue with that.
A mail server isn't that expensive to run, but if you're a spammer then it's going to need it's IP address changing on a regular basis, since it's going to get blacklisted frequently.
That's the advantage of a botnet - if you've got enough zombies in your network then there's no way they're all going to get blacklisted, and it's possible to replace nodes that have been quick enough that it won't make much difference.
That's one of the biggest advantages I see with AdWords. I work for a company where we have clients spending over £1000 per day on them, and the reason for that is the reporting tools you get.
You're able to see exactly which ad campaigns are bringing people to your website, and with a little bit of work you can even follow them right through to find out which ones are actually leading to a purchase, or whatever the desired outcome is (we have targets setup for actual online purchases, contact form fill outs, and brochure requests). Using the reporting tools you can see the value of each advert, in terms of how much money it's making you.
It's ingeniously kept at http://www.apple.com/server/
I'll second that - I bought a 12" iBook just before they released the MacBooks, and all it took to get upgraded was to call them up and ask for a returns number. They provided shipping, took it back, and shipped out a brand new MacBook to me.
I'd recommend getting the extended warranty (I think they call it AppleCare), since the one you get when you buy hardware is frankly pitiful - it's measured in days, not months. £100 for a new battery after drowning my laptop really pissed me off since it was less then 6 months old.
I (and lots of other people) think it's more likely they'll be adding support for 3G networks, which give us Europeans near broadband speeds just about anywhere, unlike wifi which is taking off but only slowly (largely because the phone networks would rather we all spent the money on their networks).
It'll also need multi-lingual support, since we don't all speak English.
Since it's running Mac OS, and Mac OS already has voice control built in I think it's a fairly safe bet it'll have voice dialing, and once it hits Europe it will be practically a requirement, since at least in the UK it is illegal to use a phone without hands free whilst driving.
Yes... up to DirectX 8 at least, apparently they'll be working on newer versions of DirectX later.
Prototype (and Scriptaculous) do the job nicely for me. Sure, you still have to use Javascript, but that's really not as painful as it used to be - Prototype does a very nice job of abstracting away browser inconsistencies, and gives you a single API that you can be fairly sure will work wherever you try to use it.
Combined with JSON on the server side, you can create some very responsive web applications.
The phrase "grow up" springs to mind - they weren't being paid before, they aren't being paid now. Of course this assumes that the people being paid were being paid for things that they specialised in, and other people wouldn't be able to do.
I may just be lucky, but my 1 year old MacBook has survived admirably. It spends a lot of it's time loose in my rucksack, and other then an accident involving a bottle of water in the same bag, which shorted the battery, it's had no problems at all. I'd imagine that most laptops take issue with having their battery left in a pool of water for several hours, so I'm not going to hold my own stupidity against it.
It has also survived being dropped from standing height, and having a glass of wine spilled over it.
All that, and it'll run Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. It really has been my dream web development machine, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend one.
This is my first Apple machine, and since buying it I've managed to persuade work to swap my aging PC for a shiny new Mac Pro, which is quite simply a beast.
I work for a company that (amongst other things... please don't shoot me) does SEO, and sitemaps are possibly one of the best things Google have come up with.
You can create (or more likely generate) an XML file describing each of the pages on your site, how often they're updated, and any meta data. It also allows you to ping Google when the site changes, causing you to be added to the queue for indexing.
I'm still amazed everytime I hear about US operators cripling the phones they're selling. I can see why they do it - as misguided as it is, but it shocks me that the consumers in the US are willing to accept it.
In the UK (and as far as I know most of the world) we get our phones *without* features disabled. If I write an app I can simply bluetooth it over to my phone. The same for wallpapers, ringtones, MP3s, and anything else I want on there.
Where are you living? It sounds like it's time to open up a web design shop in the area.
I'm sure there's more then one place to save in Dead Rising (although I may be wrong, I havn't played it in a while). Any toilets could be used as a save point, and I can't imagine a shopping mall with only one set of toilets.
Microsoft actually provide a pre-configured VM specifically for testing sites in IE 6 - I can't remember where I got it from, but a quick Googling should do the job.
I can second that - I'm a web developer and I'm typing on a quad-core Mac Pro at the moment.
At the moment I'm running Mac OS, 2 copies of Windows XP (one for IE6, one for IE7), TextMate, Photoshop, Illustrator, and assorted smaller utilities, and it's still flying along. According to activity monitor I'm currently using a total of 20% of the total capacity of this machine.
The only time I've ever managed to push even a single core to maximum usage is when encoding video to Flash, which at least in the current version isn't capable of using more then one processor - I'm hoping CS3 will change that, and I can really start pushing my machine.
I've heard it's possible to replace the hard disk yourself - just crack open the disk caddy, and drop in the disk of your choice. It'll be limited to 20GB (presumably 120GB once the Elites launch), but it's bound to be cheaper then paying the extra for a new caddy. It's also not nearly as impressive as the free SATA bay in PS3s, which is easily accessible and supported.