The problem here is that the Linux version is 150$ more expensive.
Who cares? Save yourself the money and install it yourself. The XPS models seem very Linux friendly. I'm happy with my 9550. Install was smooth, everything works out of the box.
Or, pick up a *nix friendly laptop from one of the *nix friendly vendors out there?
The GP likes to reinvent every wheel that exists before touching the code for the actual app. Some people call that real coding. It isn't very productive though.
Yes, malware for OSX and iOS does exist. It is very possible. But the problem seems to be about the same size as malware for Linux at this stage. By that I mean there is very little of anecdotal evidence of widespread, active malware in the wild targeting OSX, iOS and Linux. The same can't be said for Windows.
So far I've never been hit on OSX, iOS or Linux. I've had plenty of Windows machines go down in flames though. I still have friends of family for which this is a fairly regular occurrence. Even myself, I had a fully patched Windows VM just for testing websites in IE. No antivirus installed. Visited some legitimate news and html/css sites... Boom. Malware installed.
First up... Thank you for Rake, Jim. It is a great tool and I can only imagine how many tasks a day are fired off with Rake. Not to mention that you were an active member of the programming world, and a great person by all reports. You will be missed by many.
Many of you may not have heard of Jim Weirich, but that isn't the point. Through the fog of your low IQ and ignorance, you may have gleaned that someone who contributed a widely used feature for a programming language that has an active and thriving community. They appreciate his contribution greatly, and from what I have heard in the past Jim was also once of the nice guys.
The total lack of respect in the comments at the loss of someones life saddens me. Trolls have no shame of course, so I'll do something useful today instead of feeling bad about Anonymous Cowards.
The quality of the comments at Slashdot has dropped so low that they actually detract from the story, way worse than just adding nothing. I've been coming to Slashdot less and less over time because of this. Slashdot used to be *gasp!*... a place where actual nerds (You know? Those people that care about Tech?) came to have intelligent, humorous and often vigorous discussion and debate.
I can't believe I'm suggesting this as someone that values freedom of speech, but is it time for Anonymous Coward to go? Should slashdot require a user to login before commenting? Let's face it... Anonymous Coward adds as much to a meaningful discussion as someone who drives past a coffee shop and yells out, "Look at me!". I would finally be happy to see the last of Mr Coward. You can still say whatever you want, but put your id to it.
You're 100% correct that a reasonable amount of effort is needed to test a patch that is going to be deployed to users and enterprise systems.
But here we have a known exploit, and Oracle with their huge pool of resources cannot manage to release patch for it before Feb 2013? You can believe that they don't have the resources to test the patch in a shorter time frame or even create a better one? I seriously doubt that it takes Oracle months to regression test a single patch.
The bottom line is that Oracle are the owners of Java, and they can't patch it in a timely fashion.
Companies and people running Java applications are OK with this?
I was once a huge fan of Java and in all seriousness, this is one of the exact reasons that I don't touch Java anymore. I don't even look at MS stuff either for similar reasons.
Sorry SirSlud, but market share does not mean automatically being targeted by malware writers. If it did, the Apache server would be quite the delicious target. Targeting Windows machines is commercially viable because it is a widespread *and* a soft target. If it wasn't soft, it wouldn't be exploited as widely as it is.
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On behalf of Grammar Nazis everywhere...
The only thing that should be illegal all over the world is self proclaimed Grammar Nazi's that don't know how to use apostrophes.
If you don't trust the end service (in this case the voting servers) then you have a serious problem to begin with. No amount of cryptography will get around that issue.
The service verifying the data must be trusted by the user.
Although there are apparently stiff penalties for spitting (and littering, and...), I see more people hacking loogies out onto the footpath on any day than any other place I've *ever* lived. You'll be walking along and some dude right in front of you just goes, "haaaaawwwk! ptuh!" (sucking back and firing sounds)
Ticks me off, I wish they would enforce that one:)
IANAL... and I'm really pleased I'm not! Man, who cares? Is this all people think now?
"Oh cool. Imagine the fun the lawyers will have with this"
Theres been plenty of cases regarding who owns images when a person or object is out in public. Enough already,/. is a tech site, not a friggen legal shit-fest.
With help from the services of a dominatrix? I get that in the UK it seems to be normal for the MP's to get into that kind of stuff (google for british mp sex scandals), but I didn't know the police were in on it to.
Ever installed Linux in a laptop? I think you'll find that the scavenger hunt for drivers is similar to what Gary experienced.
Yes... yes I have. Quite a few times actually. And you know what? Over the years the install process has gotten easier and easier. On my current laptop I am now running Ubuntu Dapper which is still Beta. Everything just works out of the box, including built-in wireless with WPA. My last laptop ran Fedora then Gentoo, and once again everything just worked.
I do not know of these mythical driver problems you speak of. I think you will find installing Windows these days is more of a pain in the ass than installing Linux. I see our desktop/network guys at work re-install windows from time to time, and I always chuckle about the nastiness of a windows install... and thats with *non* Beta versions. I showed one of the guys a Ubuntu install, and he just about pee'd his pants at how easy it was!:)
For PHP, Zend_Db has a way of doing this which is very similar to the way you do it in Perl and Java. It's quite nice. There are other ways of doing this as well:)// get a Zend_Db_Adapter (basically a DB connection) $db = getConnection();// the sql with a placeholder for a parameter called 'id' $sql = 'select * from Foo where id =:id';// anyparameters are defined in the array. in this case, just 'id' $params = array('id' => $id);// send the query $result = $db->query($sql, $params);
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The problem here is that the Linux version is 150$ more expensive.
Who cares? Save yourself the money and install it yourself. The XPS models seem very Linux friendly. I'm happy with my 9550. Install was smooth, everything works out of the box.
Or, pick up a *nix friendly laptop from one of the *nix friendly vendors out there?
The GP likes to reinvent every wheel that exists before touching the code for the actual app. Some people call that real coding. It isn't very productive though.
Hehe you missed a fairly thick joke there :)
No one is denying that another vulnerability was found. Vulnerabilities will be found in any software.
Yeah, that one piece of malware is a real pain.
Yes, malware for OSX and iOS does exist. It is very possible. But the problem seems to be about the same size as malware for Linux at this stage. By that I mean there is very little of anecdotal evidence of widespread, active malware in the wild targeting OSX, iOS and Linux. The same can't be said for Windows.
So far I've never been hit on OSX, iOS or Linux. I've had plenty of Windows machines go down in flames though. I still have friends of family for which this is a fairly regular occurrence. Even myself, I had a fully patched Windows VM just for testing websites in IE. No antivirus installed. Visited some legitimate news and html/css sites... Boom. Malware installed.
I wish I had mod points to give go you.
First up... Thank you for Rake, Jim. It is a great tool and I can only imagine how many tasks a day are fired off with Rake. Not to mention that you were an active member of the programming world, and a great person by all reports. You will be missed by many.
Many of you may not have heard of Jim Weirich, but that isn't the point. Through the fog of your low IQ and ignorance, you may have gleaned that someone who contributed a widely used feature for a programming language that has an active and thriving community. They appreciate his contribution greatly, and from what I have heard in the past Jim was also once of the nice guys.
The total lack of respect in the comments at the loss of someones life saddens me. Trolls have no shame of course, so I'll do something useful today instead of feeling bad about Anonymous Cowards.
The quality of the comments at Slashdot has dropped so low that they actually detract from the story, way worse than just adding nothing. I've been coming to Slashdot less and less over time because of this. Slashdot used to be *gasp!* ... a place where actual nerds (You know? Those people that care about Tech?) came to have intelligent, humorous and often vigorous discussion and debate.
I can't believe I'm suggesting this as someone that values freedom of speech, but is it time for Anonymous Coward to go? Should slashdot require a user to login before commenting? Let's face it... Anonymous Coward adds as much to a meaningful discussion as someone who drives past a coffee shop and yells out, "Look at me!". I would finally be happy to see the last of Mr Coward. You can still say whatever you want, but put your id to it.
Magical and exclusive? Do you mean like when Windows PCs started to ship with FireWire ports?
You're 100% correct that a reasonable amount of effort is needed to test a patch that is going to be deployed to users and enterprise systems.
But here we have a known exploit, and Oracle with their huge pool of resources cannot manage to release patch for it before Feb 2013? You can believe that they don't have the resources to test the patch in a shorter time frame or even create a better one? I seriously doubt that it takes Oracle months to regression test a single patch.
The bottom line is that Oracle are the owners of Java, and they can't patch it in a timely fashion.
Companies and people running Java applications are OK with this?
I was once a huge fan of Java and in all seriousness, this is one of the exact reasons that I don't touch Java anymore. I don't even look at MS stuff either for similar reasons.
I hope all cars sound like they used to on The Jetsons.
You can roll back to an earlier version without too much trouble. OK, harder than it should be, but it wasn't what I would call hard.
I didn't run into any "conflicts".
I wrote about it here http://scottbarr.blogspot.com/2010/07/rolling-back-iphone-ios4-to-iphone-ios3.html
... but I would consider that an overreach ...
I would consider it more of a reach around.
Other way around; he used to work for Gillette. He left after they cancelled his 1000-blade razor project.
Yes, I also heard about the 1000-blade project getting cut...
"Write once, exploit everywhere"
Well, someone had to say it.
Sorry SirSlud, but market share does not mean automatically being targeted by malware writers. If it did, the Apache server would be quite the delicious target. Targeting Windows machines is commercially viable because it is a widespread *and* a soft target. If it wasn't soft, it wouldn't be exploited as widely as it is.
On behalf of Grammar Nazis everywhere...
The only thing that should be illegal all over the world is self proclaimed Grammar Nazi's that don't know how to use apostrophes.
If you don't trust the end service (in this case the voting servers) then you have a serious problem to begin with. No amount of cryptography will get around that issue. The service verifying the data must be trusted by the user.
Ever heard of SSL and POST? They're both pretty amazing :)
The ISP can't see a thing in the logs other than the URL. All data is encrypted via SSL.
I live in Singapore
...), I see more people hacking loogies out onto the footpath on any day than any other place I've *ever* lived. You'll be walking along and some dude right in front of you just goes, "haaaaawwwk! ptuh!" (sucking back and firing sounds)
:)
Although there are apparently stiff penalties for spitting (and littering, and
Ticks me off, I wish they would enforce that one
IANAL ... and I'm really pleased I'm not! Man, who cares? Is this all people think now?
/. is a tech site, not a friggen legal shit-fest.
"Oh cool. Imagine the fun the lawyers will have with this"
Theres been plenty of cases regarding who owns images when a person or object is out in public. Enough already,
With help from the services of a dominatrix? I get that in the UK it seems to be normal for the MP's to get into that kind of stuff (google for british mp sex scandals), but I didn't know the police were in on it to.
Is this a government wide trend?
Wow. Not only have you probabl not read the article, but you also have not read the comments at all before commenting?
:)
Look right at the top... very first comment
After your 3rd coffee you realised that sound won't travel too well in the vacuum of space.
Ever installed Linux in a laptop? I think you'll find that the scavenger hunt for drivers is similar to what Gary experienced.
:)
Yes... yes I have. Quite a few times actually. And you know what? Over the years the install process has gotten easier and easier. On my current laptop I am now running Ubuntu Dapper which is still Beta. Everything just works out of the box, including built-in wireless with WPA. My last laptop ran Fedora then Gentoo, and once again everything just worked.
I do not know of these mythical driver problems you speak of. I think you will find installing Windows these days is more of a pain in the ass than installing Linux. I see our desktop/network guys at work re-install windows from time to time, and I always chuckle about the nastiness of a windows install... and thats with *non* Beta versions. I showed one of the guys a Ubuntu install, and he just about pee'd his pants at how easy it was!
For PHP, Zend_Db has a way of doing this which is very similar to the way you do it in Perl and Java. It's quite nice. There are other ways of doing this as well :) // get a Zend_Db_Adapter (basically a DB connection) // the sql with a placeholder for a parameter called 'id' :id'; // anyparameters are defined in the array. in this case, just 'id' // send the query
$db = getConnection();
$sql = 'select * from Foo where id =
$params = array('id' => $id);
$result = $db->query($sql, $params);
Anyone notice the date on the video? April 1st 2006. Could it just be small suction cups on a cool bot and not something more spactacular?
:)
Although i think this is a cool bot in itself, I never trust anything released on April 1st