Then what stops the janitor from installing a keylogger to grab the passwords that connect those PCs to Unix?
The same thing that prevented me from installing anything on the PCs - they'd blocked it. (OK, so technically there were functional passwords on the PCs. But the user passwords were pointless)
The problem is with the 40 year old women in the office who use their kids names over and over with different numbers at the end of the password
So what kind of data do they have access to? Is it critical data, or just their local machine? If it's critical, do they need that access all the time?
For a while we had strict passwords on our PCs - but there was nothing important you could get at from a PC, unless you used it to connect to a Unix box - at which point you had to enter your Unix password. There really was no reason why the PC even needed a password.
it won't work in modern versions of Outlook which block inline images by default
Or OS X 10.3 Mail.app - if mail has images, it tells you; you have to choose to load them for each message. There is no option to automatically load them.
You have to wonder, word is a pretty hefty piece of software, did the attackers even bother padding the program? A really quick download time would be one of a multitude of clues that what you are downloading probably isn't legit.
It would be easy enough to stuff the app package with garbage (OS X apps are actually a special kind of directory called a "package"; the executable itself is just one of many files in the package)
The birds won't be impressed by a replica DeLorean, just like they were probably unimpressed with a glow in the dark TRON costume
Speaking as a chick, I was impressed by the glow in the dark costume, just not by how visible the package of the guy wearing it was (trust me, *nobody's* package looks good in spandex). The car's cool too.
But then, while I'm a chick, I'm also a Slashdot nerd.
Part of the outrage was that the spammers did not crosspost.
Also, with crossposting, if you had a decent newsreader you'd see the message only once then it would be marked read in the next group you looked at - with separate posts, you saw it again in every group.
When the Green Card spam hit, I was at ParcPlace, porting Smalltalk to the PowerMac.
I have serious doubts I'd find it comfortable to sleep with that thing strapped to my waist.
Consider that if you're doing it for medical reasons, the alternative is wires stuck to your head - yeah, it's comfortable. (Mom had a stroke and every couple of weeks she has to be wired up for a day or two)
In the HEB, TX school district database, there's something known as the "Lee Ann" rule for allowing spaces in first names. It was named after me; I had a summer job programming there when I was in high school & a friend of mine designed the database.
I used to use the non-breaking space on Macs (option-space, IIRC) to keep databases from seeing just "Lee" and assuming I was male.
I've fortunately JUST been granted permission to stop development of the current major version, and rewrite the app from scratch
Lucky you. I worked at a company which had lots of little RPG programs (Report Program Generator, for you kiddies) - only trouble was, the previous programmer only thought in Cobol. So instead of taking advantage of the line and page counters built into RPG, he had his own line and page count routines - in every single RPG program. What should be a 10 line program would be 10 pages.
My boss, however, could not understand why I "wasted time" rewriting it (average time to rewrite - 1 hour) instead of "simply" fixing the problem (average time to understand what it's doing, let alone find where the bug is - 2 days)
(RPG is a clever little language, for what it's meant to do, but I have *never* put it on my resume - I don't mind writing code in it, but I don't like the kinds of jobs where it's used)
Being in the 10% of C's doesn't mean you get fired, it is a tool for management to decide who to focus on
It did at Sun. 10% of *every* team had to be marked as poor, and that 10% got laid off. Never mind that you may have carefully assembled a team with no poor performers; somebody had to go.
This may surprise you but some people actually think diamonds are nice to look at and that's why they buy them.
I think they're nice to look at, but that's mainly due to the high index of refraction. That doesn't make them nice enough to justify the price, though.
Then again, you've probably never even spoken to a girl so you have no idea
What better way to improve the quality of programming than to mandate it through public dollar votes?
The "public" doesn't seem to want quality; you have looked at the ratings lately, right? Survivor, The Batchelor - even the Sci-Fi channel has joined the "reality TV" craze.
Niche channels like Sci-Fi will do exactly what niche channel The Nashville Network did - drop their original programming for cheaper syndicated stuff and "reality" shows with a wider appeal.
"in year 1986 a guy named Akimov pushed wrong button and launched the biggest nuclear catastrophe..."
Hmm, looks like they had a Russian version of Homer Simpson working there. He was probably looking for the "donut button".
According to this analysis of the political and technical causes of Chernobyl, Chernobyl and the Downfall of the Soviet Union, the "wrong button" was the shutdown button, at a point where a quick shutdown was impossible:
Homer Simpson was not only working at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, he was the plant manager, the chief engineer, and the head of nuclear safety.
...
The standard procedure for recovering from such a situation is to shut down the reactor, wait 24 hours for the iodine and xenon to decay, and then restart. But when Toptunov announced that he was going to shut down the reactor, Deputy Chief Engineer Dyatlov, who was overseeing the experiment, countermanded him. Toptunov was backed up by the operations shift foreman, Aleksandr Akimov; but Dyatlov began storming around the control room, verbally abusing the operators and accusing them of ruining the experiment. He ordered them to increase the power in the reactor and stabilize it.
Toptunov and Akimov refused at first, but Dyatlov threatened to replace them with the foreman and reaction control engineer who had just come off the shift at midnight and were still hanging around to watch the results of the experiment. The weak Akimov and the inexperienced Toptunov then gave in and raised the power levels in the reactor in the only way it was now possible, by removing most of the control rods from the reactor. This is an absolute violation of all reactor safety rules, but Toptunov told the investigators before his death (he died of acute radiation poisoning in the Moscow clinic a few weeks after the accident) that he was torn between his fear of causing a power surge and his fear of being fired if he didn't follow the orders of the Deputy Chief Engineer.
...
The reactor was running out of control. Akimov announced that he was initiating an emergency shutdown and pressed the red button that causes all of the control rods to descend into the core of the reactor.
At this point, a third major design flaw of the RBMK-1000 reactor that had not previously been recognized came into play. The control rods are 7 meters long, but when fully inserted into the core, the tips extend below the bottom. The tip of each control rod contains no graphite for the first meter of its length (the final one meter at the opposite end also is hollow). This means that the graphite in the control rods cannot begin absorbing excess neutrons and slowing the chain reaction until the rods have descended most of the way into the core. Furthermore, the weight of 300 hollow-tipped rods plunging down from the top of the reactor all at once compressed the steam and the ongoing nuclear reactions toward the bottom of the core as the rods began their descent. Rather than causing an immediate reduction in reactivity, pressing the emergency shut-down button caused another powerful surge in neutron production in the center and bottom of the core that happened to coincide with a power surge caused by the reactor's positive void coefficient.
wait for the next version of AOL to fix what turned out to be a bad design choice
What's *really* bad about the design is you can't see the entire email address. If all you can see is "orderconfirmation@", you can't tell if it's really an order confirmation or a spam - you can see the whole title, but those rarely say where they come from, since they assume you can see the domain in the address. Don't know about the PC version, but on Mac and web-based AOL mail, that column doesn't resize.
I still have an AOL account because I've had it since it was the only way to get Internet email, and because unlike Geocities, my websites can take anything short of a slashdotting - not bad for $4/month. I get around 100 spam/week, and I only check it weekly, so having to click two dialog boxes for every single spam is tedious.
Granted, clicking only one with no confirmation isn't a good idea, but if they go back to the old system, I'll go back to deleting without reporting.
BTW, I've never seen the option to correct accidental "report as spam", but I usually check the mail via the web - AOL for Mac still has the "two dialogs for each spam" system.
But AOL's ScreenName service doesn't have my credit card number. Neither does Yahoo - they don't even have a valid email address for the account I use, because I still use the one I made for testing Java applets when I worked at Apple.
Just before the Nationalists fled mainland china to Taiwan, they pre-charged everyone something like 50-years worth of taxes.
Let's just say that for everybody that paid, it wasn't a very good investment.
I used to teach karate. We moved into a space that had been another karate studio until they got kicked out for nonpayment of rent. On our opening day we had a lot of the previous tenant's students show up for classes. They hadn't been told that their school was about to close, and most of them had just paid for "lifetime memberships".
I'd like to think that having a UK power adapter and/or some signs of wear on the hardware
If I were in the UK and brought a laptop to the US, I wouldn't have the UK adaptor with me, I'd have a US one. Presumably I'd have both, but I'd leave the UK one at home.
10.0 was pretty pathetic on my first-generation iBook (it was a 233 or 300MHz G3), but 10.1 was much better and 10.2 did everything I needed even better than 9.x had.
Imagine, an OS that gets faster with each release.
I've already seen a few programs (though I can't find any examples now that I look) that have a folder with an arrow pointing into it for "save" and out of it for "open". I think that's fairly intuitive.
SAP CRM Phoenix (whatever the hell it is - we've only been using it a week, and people are using those interchangably) uses a folder with an arrow for open (curved, so it's anyone's guess which way it's pointing), and no, it wasn't intuitive for anyone.
But then there hasn't been a single part of this POS that anyone has found intuitive - whether they be Mac, Unix or Windows users
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The same thing that prevented me from installing anything on the PCs - they'd blocked it. (OK, so technically there were functional passwords on the PCs. But the user passwords were pointless)
So what kind of data do they have access to? Is it critical data, or just their local machine? If it's critical, do they need that access all the time?
For a while we had strict passwords on our PCs - but there was nothing important you could get at from a PC, unless you used it to connect to a Unix box - at which point you had to enter your Unix password. There really was no reason why the PC even needed a password.
Or OS X 10.3 Mail.app - if mail has images, it tells you; you have to choose to load them for each message. There is no option to automatically load them.
It would be easy enough to stuff the app package with garbage (OS X apps are actually a special kind of directory called a "package"; the executable itself is just one of many files in the package)
Speaking as a chick, I was impressed by the glow in the dark costume, just not by how visible the package of the guy wearing it was (trust me, *nobody's* package looks good in spandex). The car's cool too.
But then, while I'm a chick, I'm also a Slashdot nerd.
Also, with crossposting, if you had a decent newsreader you'd see the message only once then it would be marked read in the next group you looked at - with separate posts, you saw it again in every group.
When the Green Card spam hit, I was at ParcPlace, porting Smalltalk to the PowerMac.
Consider that if you're doing it for medical reasons, the alternative is wires stuck to your head - yeah, it's comfortable. (Mom had a stroke and every couple of weeks she has to be wired up for a day or two)
I used to use the non-breaking space on Macs (option-space, IIRC) to keep databases from seeing just "Lee" and assuming I was male.
Lucky you. I worked at a company which had lots of little RPG programs (Report Program Generator, for you kiddies) - only trouble was, the previous programmer only thought in Cobol. So instead of taking advantage of the line and page counters built into RPG, he had his own line and page count routines - in every single RPG program. What should be a 10 line program would be 10 pages.
My boss, however, could not understand why I "wasted time" rewriting it (average time to rewrite - 1 hour) instead of "simply" fixing the problem (average time to understand what it's doing, let alone find where the bug is - 2 days)
(RPG is a clever little language, for what it's meant to do, but I have *never* put it on my resume - I don't mind writing code in it, but I don't like the kinds of jobs where it's used)
It did at Sun. 10% of *every* team had to be marked as poor, and that 10% got laid off. Never mind that you may have carefully assembled a team with no poor performers; somebody had to go.
You get a Darwin Award.
I think they're nice to look at, but that's mainly due to the high index of refraction. That doesn't make them nice enough to justify the price, though.
Then again, you've probably never even spoken to a girl so you have no idea
I am one, so I think I have an idea.
The "public" doesn't seem to want quality; you have looked at the ratings lately, right? Survivor, The Batchelor - even the Sci-Fi channel has joined the "reality TV" craze.
Niche channels like Sci-Fi will do exactly what niche channel The Nashville Network did - drop their original programming for cheaper syndicated stuff and "reality" shows with a wider appeal.
Hmm, looks like they had a Russian version of Homer Simpson working there. He was probably looking for the "donut button".
According to this analysis of the political and technical causes of Chernobyl, Chernobyl and the Downfall of the Soviet Union, the "wrong button" was the shutdown button, at a point where a quick shutdown was impossible:
Homer Simpson was not only working at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, he was the plant manager, the chief engineer, and the head of nuclear safety.
...
The standard procedure for recovering from such a situation is to shut down the reactor, wait 24 hours for the iodine and xenon to decay, and then restart. But when Toptunov announced that he was going to shut down the reactor, Deputy Chief Engineer Dyatlov, who was overseeing the experiment, countermanded him. Toptunov was backed up by the operations shift foreman, Aleksandr Akimov; but Dyatlov began storming around the control room, verbally abusing the operators and accusing them of ruining the experiment. He ordered them to increase the power in the reactor and stabilize it.
Toptunov and Akimov refused at first, but Dyatlov threatened to replace them with the foreman and reaction control engineer who had just come off the shift at midnight and were still hanging around to watch the results of the experiment. The weak Akimov and the inexperienced Toptunov then gave in and raised the power levels in the reactor in the only way it was now possible, by removing most of the control rods from the reactor. This is an absolute violation of all reactor safety rules, but Toptunov told the investigators before his death (he died of acute radiation poisoning in the Moscow clinic a few weeks after the accident) that he was torn between his fear of causing a power surge and his fear of being fired if he didn't follow the orders of the Deputy Chief Engineer.
...
The reactor was running out of control. Akimov announced that he was initiating an emergency shutdown and pressed the red button that causes all of the control rods to descend into the core of the reactor.
At this point, a third major design flaw of the RBMK-1000 reactor that had not previously been recognized came into play. The control rods are 7 meters long, but when fully inserted into the core, the tips extend below the bottom. The tip of each control rod contains no graphite for the first meter of its length (the final one meter at the opposite end also is hollow). This means that the graphite in the control rods cannot begin absorbing excess neutrons and slowing the chain reaction until the rods have descended most of the way into the core. Furthermore, the weight of 300 hollow-tipped rods plunging down from the top of the reactor all at once compressed the steam and the ongoing nuclear reactions toward the bottom of the core as the rods began their descent. Rather than causing an immediate reduction in reactivity, pressing the emergency shut-down button caused another powerful surge in neutron production in the center and bottom of the core that happened to coincide with a power surge caused by the reactor's positive void coefficient.
My provider do not charge for kilobites, I just buying internet card and it is unlimited internet.
"No, give me the smaller one"
Don't forget cell phones - guys are always bragging about how small theirs are.
What's *really* bad about the design is you can't see the entire email address. If all you can see is "orderconfirmation@", you can't tell if it's really an order confirmation or a spam - you can see the whole title, but those rarely say where they come from, since they assume you can see the domain in the address. Don't know about the PC version, but on Mac and web-based AOL mail, that column doesn't resize.
I still have an AOL account because I've had it since it was the only way to get Internet email, and because unlike Geocities, my websites can take anything short of a slashdotting - not bad for $4/month. I get around 100 spam/week, and I only check it weekly, so having to click two dialog boxes for every single spam is tedious.
Granted, clicking only one with no confirmation isn't a good idea, but if they go back to the old system, I'll go back to deleting without reporting.
BTW, I've never seen the option to correct accidental "report as spam", but I usually check the mail via the web - AOL for Mac still has the "two dialogs for each spam" system.
But AOL's ScreenName service doesn't have my credit card number. Neither does Yahoo - they don't even have a valid email address for the account I use, because I still use the one I made for testing Java applets when I worked at Apple.
When Passport was new, that was the only way you could buy stuff at Starbucks website, but they've made it optional since then.
The SGIs were pretty, but Sun managed to find the one shade of purple that's equivalent to beige.
Let's just say that for everybody that paid, it wasn't a very good investment.
I used to teach karate. We moved into a space that had been another karate studio until they got kicked out for nonpayment of rent. On our opening day we had a lot of the previous tenant's students show up for classes. They hadn't been told that their school was about to close, and most of them had just paid for "lifetime memberships".
If I were in the UK and brought a laptop to the US, I wouldn't have the UK adaptor with me, I'd have a US one. Presumably I'd have both, but I'd leave the UK one at home.
10.0 was pretty pathetic on my first-generation iBook (it was a 233 or 300MHz G3), but 10.1 was much better and 10.2 did everything I needed even better than 9.x had.
Imagine, an OS that gets faster with each release.
SAP CRM Phoenix (whatever the hell it is - we've only been using it a week, and people are using those interchangably) uses a folder with an arrow for open (curved, so it's anyone's guess which way it's pointing), and no, it wasn't intuitive for anyone.
But then there hasn't been a single part of this POS that anyone has found intuitive - whether they be Mac, Unix or Windows users
The same SciFi channel that's giving us "Scare Tactics", John Edward, and that "house of freaks" reality show?