...iffy email then examining it with a simple mail client that won't parse any MIME or HTML first is always a good idea. "mail" springs to mind on unix. Yes you can switch off most features in advanced email clients but its always best to be 100% sure and since "mail" comes with ALL unix systems...
Or more likely he just pretended there was a flaw. After all , a company won't know about a flaw that it doesn't know about obviously and by the same logic they won't know about one that doesn't exist because it was invented by an extortionist. If he gave them no details as to where the flaw might be they have to take him at least partly seriously until they've done a complete code review. It would be far to dangerous to call someones bluff over something like this.
Yeah , but scienfitic data probably takes up a lot less space than some mp3/porn page or other rubbish which broadband is used for. Face it , most people managed quite fine with a 9600 baud modem and telnet to do remote work 10 years ago because the information they downloaded wasn't surrounded by pointless eye candy and inefficient high level protocols.
If its english they should use english. Or alternatively 150K would have been just as clear as writing it longhand. Who the hell has ever heard
of a "lakh"??
Here in the UK programming jobs are slowly disappearing down the sink and emerging somewhere in india. I suspect its less of a problem elsewhere
in europe because I doubt many indians speak german or polish etc and its always easier to deal with workers who speak your language and code
using naming conventions in your language too, but I suspect if the cost reductions become hard to resist it won't be long before young Ranjit & friends in Bangalore are
sent on a Learn Polish in 21 Days course.
When you're running a production enviroment you can't just assume everything will work because "not much has changed".
If your business can be brought down because of ANY potential reason you MUST do testing.
Onstar isn't magic, it won't always work. I'm not sure if it uses a cell network or satellite to dial home but if its the former then it'll have the same issue as any cellphone in remote locations and it its the latter then any large object can block the satellite uplink. This would be a big problem in mountainous areas where any geostationary satellite could be blocked behind a 10,000 ft peak (GPS doesn't have this issue since it has many non geo satellites).
Err , given that you have to phone up onstar to find your location , hence use a phone anyway , what
exactly is the issue here? YOu stop the car to read your had held GPS and pay nothing , or you stop the car to phone onstar and pay $$$$$$.
Maybe you should RTFA first next time.
... and AMD/Intel will bring out a processor with that clock speed anyway! And he'll look a bit stupid when his friends have their 4 Ghz desktops and he's got his 4Ghz , err , industrial freezer!
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"And separating logic from layout is A Good Thing"
Yes thats sounds wonderful unless you require graphics that change during runtime.
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I'm sorry , but I shudder at the thought of having to "code" in this unholy mess of a "language". SGML and HTML upon which XML are based were meant to
be typesetting/dexcription languages , they were NEVER meant to be coding languages as as such their syntax is not geared towards that use. To try
and shoehorn coding concepts into XML simple because its the current flavour of the month in marketdroids and other gullible types on the fringes of IT
does NOT mean it should be used for this. And how exactly is this an advance over other supposed 4GLs anyway? What does it do that they do not? Nothing as far as I can
see apart from giving the coder a headache. The only possible use I can see for it is all those 3rd raters in the web industry who learnt HTML and suddenly thought they could code
and now heres a language to try and convince them they're right. Well sorry guys , you're not coders and you never will be until you learn a proper programming language.
"I have money - note my mercedes slk and my suzuki tl1000r my partners porsche boxster and my 400 thousand house"
Things a bit underdeveloped in the trouser dept then?
"dumbass" , "whining bitch" ? You're about as british as the original poster.
As for ads paying for your lifestyle , yea right, more likely its the poor bastards in your firm on minimum wage who pay for you lifestyle while you
take home 99% of the cash for yourself. Arsehole.
uh , the mont blanc tunnels are under a mountain , not under the atlantic ocean you half wit. The water pressure is nothing in comparison.
As for north africa politics , which bit of "illegal immigrant" and "morocco is poor" confused you?
Well ok , you CAN physically install it , but reading between the lines on their agreement form about having to use the internet 30 hours a month
I'd bet my granny that the PC comes with some sort of phone home software and if it doesn't phone home after a month (because its been deleted) then I'm pretty sure someone would come knocking on
the door a few days later. Of course you could always put Linux/BSD on and just use the PC for a month then wait for the knock, depends what you need it for.
1) Most large shipments to western & central africa go by ship, NOT truck.
2) The rail links from Morocco to north eastern africa are unreliable and frequently screwed up by terrorists. Oh yes , and they go through libya.
3) Morocco is the north side of the sahara. Any shipments south have to go through that. AFAIK there is NO continuous rail link north-south
through that desert on the west side of the continent.
4) This project will cost tens of billions. Morocco could even afford 1% of the cost so Spain will have to pay. The chances of recouping this
investment even on immensly high tunnel charges is probably nil (and if they did that they'd make it uneconomical anyway).
IMO this is just political rhetoric , in a few weeks it'll be swept under the carpet again and forgotten for another 20 years.
The length is shorter but the sea depth is WAY deeper. The article says "only 300 metres deep". Christ! Only??!!! The tunnel itself will probably need to be a good 50 metres beneath that so we're talking a damn deep tunnel built under HUGE water pressure conditions.
Also for the tunnel to be usable by large freight trains the grade can't be very steep so it'll have to have a large amount of tunnel either side of
the deepest point. This is going to be one expensive project and I for one can't see Morocco being able to afford even close to 50% of the cost.
Why spain want to do this beats me , Morocco has little to offer europe for either import or export (other than illegal immigrants) so it seems to be this
is probably little more than political back slapping. Call me a cynic but....
And which of the crappy bug ridden alternatives would you suggest? Lilo is small, compact and does what it says on the tin. All I want is a loader to boot linux & BSD, I'm not looking for a mini OS to fuck around with 101 pointless options that are nothing more than someones wet dream.
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"With the exception of O2 and food"
Err , I think you just hit the nail on the head there. People arn't robots, they can't survive on electricity.
I guess the DTMF has changed!
Ok , thats a bit obscure but a real hacker will know what I mean.
...iffy email then examining it with a simple mail client that won't parse any MIME or HTML
first is always a good idea. "mail" springs to mind on unix.
Yes you can switch off most features in advanced email clients but its always best to be 100% sure and since "mail" comes with ALL unix systems...
Or more likely he just pretended there was a flaw. After all , a company won't know about a flaw that it doesn't know about obviously and by
the same logic they won't know about one that doesn't exist because it was invented by an extortionist. If he gave them no details as to where the flaw might be
they have to take him at least partly seriously until they've done a complete code review. It would be far to dangerous to call someones bluff over something like this.
Yeah , but scienfitic data probably takes up a lot less space than some mp3/porn page or other rubbish which broadband is used for. Face it ,
most people managed quite fine with a 9600 baud modem and telnet to do remote work 10 years ago because the information they downloaded wasn't surrounded
by pointless eye candy and inefficient high level protocols.
If its english they should use english. Or alternatively 150K would have been just as clear
as writing it longhand. Who the hell has ever heard
of a "lakh"??
Here in the UK programming jobs are slowly disappearing down the sink and emerging somewhere
in india. I suspect its less of a problem elsewhere
in europe because I doubt many indians speak german or polish etc and its always easier to deal with workers who speak your language and code
using naming conventions in your language too, but I suspect if the cost reductions become hard to resist it won't be long before young Ranjit & friends in Bangalore are
sent on a Learn Polish in 21 Days course.
"Plus, since it's written (except for the lowest level stuff) in a LISPy language,"
Is that supposed to be a Good Thing?? Blech!
Portable DVD players have been around for quite a few years but they're not exactly selling like hot cakes.
When you're running a production enviroment you can't just assume everything will work because "not much has changed".
If your business can be brought down because of ANY potential reason you MUST do testing.
Onstar isn't magic, it won't always work. I'm not sure if it uses a cell network or satellite to dial home but if its the former then it'll have the
same issue as any cellphone in remote locations and it its the latter then any large object can block the satellite uplink. This would be a big problem
in mountainous areas where any geostationary satellite could be blocked behind a 10,000 ft peak (GPS doesn't have this issue since it has many non geo satellites).
Err , given that you have to phone up onstar to find your location , hence use a phone anyway , what
exactly is the issue here? YOu stop the car to read your had held GPS and pay nothing , or you stop the car to phone onstar and pay $$$$$$.
Maybe you should RTFA first next time.
... and AMD/Intel will bring out a processor with that clock speed anyway! And he'll look a bit stupid when his friends have their 4 Ghz desktops and
he's got his 4Ghz , err , industrial freezer!
"And separating logic from layout is A Good Thing"
Yes thats sounds wonderful unless you require graphics that change during runtime.
I'm sorry , but I shudder at the thought of having to "code" in this unholy mess of a "language". SGML and HTML upon which XML are based were meant to
be typesetting/dexcription languages , they were NEVER meant to be coding languages as as such their syntax is not geared towards that use. To try
and shoehorn coding concepts into XML simple because its the current flavour of the month in marketdroids and other gullible types on the fringes of IT
does NOT mean it should be used for this. And how exactly is this an advance over other supposed 4GLs anyway? What does it do that they do not? Nothing as far as I can
see apart from giving the coder a headache. The only possible use I can see for it is all those 3rd raters in the web industry who learnt HTML and suddenly thought they could code
and now heres a language to try and convince them they're right. Well sorry guys , you're not coders and you never will be until you learn a proper programming language.
What is this , idiot week? Rock doesn't squirt through cracks into a bore and flood it.
"I'm not an economist."
Quite obviously. If the mortgage is more than they get back via rent then they lose money making the whole venture pointless. The whole
idea of rent is to make the landlord money, he's not a charity.
"I have money - note my mercedes slk and my suzuki tl1000r my partners porsche boxster and my 400 thousand house"
Things a bit underdeveloped in the trouser dept then?
"dumbass" , "whining bitch" ? You're about as british as the original poster.
As for ads paying for your lifestyle , yea right, more likely its the poor bastards in your firm on minimum wage who pay for you lifestyle while you
take home 99% of the cash for yourself. Arsehole.
"paying some parasite buy-to-let shared house landlord's mortgage? "
Why is someone who rents a house a parasite? Maybe thats how he makes a living. Odds are you wouldn't have been able to afford the house
to buy youself so what difference does it make to you?
uh , the mont blanc tunnels are under a mountain , not under the atlantic ocean you half wit. The water pressure is nothing in comparison.
As for north africa politics , which bit of "illegal immigrant" and "morocco is poor" confused you?
Well ok , you CAN physically install it , but reading between the lines on their agreement form about having to use the internet 30 hours a month
I'd bet my granny that the PC comes with some sort of phone home software and if it doesn't phone home after a month (because its been deleted) then I'm pretty sure someone would come knocking on
the door a few days later. Of course you could always put Linux/BSD on and just use the PC for a month then wait for the knock,
depends what you need it for.
Sorry , but you're wrong.
1) Most large shipments to western & central africa go by ship, NOT truck.
2) The rail links from Morocco to north eastern africa are unreliable and frequently screwed up by terrorists. Oh yes , and they go through libya.
3) Morocco is the north side of the sahara. Any shipments south have to go through that. AFAIK there is NO continuous rail link north-south
through that desert on the west side of the continent.
4) This project will cost tens of billions. Morocco could even afford 1% of the cost so Spain will have to pay. The chances of recouping this
investment even on immensly high tunnel charges is probably nil (and if they did that they'd make it uneconomical anyway).
IMO this is just political rhetoric , in a few weeks it'll be swept under the carpet again and forgotten for another 20 years.
The length is shorter but the sea depth is WAY deeper. The article says "only 300 metres deep". Christ! Only??!!!
The tunnel itself will probably need to be a good 50 metres beneath that so we're talking a damn deep tunnel built under HUGE water pressure conditions.
Also for the tunnel to be usable by large freight trains the grade can't be very steep so it'll have to have a large amount of tunnel either side of
the deepest point. This is going to be one expensive project and I for one can't see Morocco being able to afford even close to 50% of the cost.
Why spain want to do this beats me , Morocco has little to offer europe for either import or export (other than illegal immigrants) so it seems to be this
is probably little more than political back slapping. Call me a cynic but....
How can you create an initrd one yourself and get the kernel/lilo to load it?
And which of the crappy bug ridden alternatives would you suggest? Lilo is small, compact and does what it says on the tin. All I want is
a loader to boot linux & BSD, I'm not looking for a mini OS to fuck around with 101 pointless options that are nothing more than someones wet dream.