Don't waste your time! The way MAC people think, it's better for a system to SLOWLY ROT AWAY because of memory-stomping and bad references than to put up an exception fault.
Remember, it's Apples OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION to reset the ENTIRE MACHINE after an application crashes. That's because the entire system can be corrupt. (In OS1 through 9). Applications can go stomping on each other's memory with no "segmentaton faults" and stupid Apple users thought that was a Good Thing.
Anyway, you'll be happy to know that Apple's Safari (yes! I'm a Mac user, just not a crazy one) crashes all the time. In fact, there are web pages that make it crash every time. You don't see me getting my panties in a knot over this and posting to slashdot.
It's a shame so many Mac users suffer from AIDS-related dimentia and think like the above poster does!
Maybe the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, which donates so much money to AIDS research, will eventually find a cure for people who suffer from paranoid delusions brought about from AIDS.
I expect that a zillion Macintosh users will post to this thread (with rabid foam drooling from their mouths) that their Macintoshes + Safari aren't vulnerable.
So, I'll say it here first and save them the trouble!
In related news:
STEVE JOBS PROJECTED TO DOUBLE BY 2010 (He'll either clone himself, so he can run anothe company, or he'll just get fatter from eating in cafe Macs)
BLOW JOBS PROJECTED TO DOBULE BY 2010 (Thanks to Logitec's USB electronic mouth.)
While it's certainly not where the bulk of email comes from, I no longer have my email address on my business cards. If someone wants to reach me they can call.
It's all to easy for companies to decide I want to receive their daily press releases and add me to their spam list after I give them a business card.
How DARE YOU recommend that people use my domain name just so YOU get less spam!
In all seriousness--if you use a munged email address, make sure it has an invalid TLD, like name@REVERSEMOCmyhost.moc so someone won't get your mail. I (seriouosly) own the domain yahoot.com. It gets about 50K emails a day, because people think that they can disguise their email addresses by adding a "T" at the end of it. I wish I had the resources to go sue everyone who does this.
But I think I got the last laugh! I sell my spam to that site to an anti-spam company.
Years ago, there was the "LIM" (Lotus-Intel-Microsoft) for adding more than 640KB of RAM to a PC, by "windowing in" a section of RAM in a certain area.
It seems that, 20 years later, we're back to doing essentially the same thing.
I used to own a domain name that was a common word. (I registered it years ago, before the WWW.)
I had to give it up because spammers were forging email from "my" domain, simply because of the common word I had registered.
After spending a few weeks seeing if there was anything I could do about it (I was getting letters/phone calls from idiots (mostly Macintosh users for some reason!) who thought I was spamming them, I just decided to retire the domain.
In a perfect world, the people ruining my good name would be sitting in jail (or dead.)
...for my California PE License, which gives me the legal right to call myself an Engineer, and form a corporation with the name "Engineering".
I'll be damned if some Javascript kiddie could call himeslf an engineer, too! The term "Engineer" should mean something, like a basic ability to perform scientific and mathematical tasks correctly.
SOMEONE needs to write a null plug in that had the same GUID as the flash plugin (or whatever the browser's looking for) so your machine LOOKS like it has flash (no "Would you like to download Flash") but doesn't really.
I was skeptical about this technology, but it does work. And it's way ahead of the "Internet Accellerators" of a few years back that did nothing but aggressively pre-cache.
When loading web pages, one big delay is caused by the overhead of establishing a TCP/IP connection. If there are a dozen elements (GIFs, etc) on a page, you could require a dozen TCP/IP connections (yes, HTTP 1.1 addresses this problem a bit...).
Propel's technology uses a single TCP/IP connection that's held open for your entire connection. You connect to their special server that contains a massive cache, and sends the data to you compressed and over this single stable connection.
It also re-compresses all images, and makes sure that you aren't trying do display images bigger than what the browser's scaling it to. (You wouldn't believe how many web sites have 1 MB images displayed at postage-stamp thumbnails. Apparently stupid web designers on their Macs think that setting the width= and height= tags is equivalent to actually scaalng the images.) GIFS, especially banner ads, are converted to black and white.
No, it won't speed up MP3 downloads, but it really does make regualr web browsing on a 53K dial-up quite tolerable. I use "Propel" when I'm on the road.
Getting IT professionals, especially young ones, interested in learning mainframe work isn't easy."
Sounds like this employer's trying to discriminate against older computer professionals (a BIG problem if you're over 40 and just want to program computers for a living). Saying that you can't find young ones just means he can't find cheap ones.
Sorry, those sub-wage H1-B Chinese and Indian kids aren't qualified. Maybe you'll have to actually pay a decent wage for your computer operator!
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Remember, it's Apples OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION to reset the ENTIRE MACHINE after an application crashes. That's because the entire system can be corrupt. (In OS1 through 9). Applications can go stomping on each other's memory with no "segmentaton faults" and stupid Apple users thought that was a Good Thing.
Anyway, you'll be happy to know that Apple's Safari (yes! I'm a Mac user, just not a crazy one) crashes all the time. In fact, there are web pages that make it crash every time. You don't see me getting my panties in a knot over this and posting to slashdot.
In fact, there are web pages that will consistantly crash SAFARI. Why is nobody jumping up and down about this?
Maybe the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, which donates so much money to AIDS research, will eventually find a cure for people who suffer from paranoid delusions brought about from AIDS.
So, I'll say it here first and save them the trouble!
...you should ask a LAWYER, instead of the geeks on Slashdot! What's the point of asking this question?
The people who run /. are STUPID IDIOTS who are rolling in what's left of their dirty dot-com dollars and don't give a shit.
Or...practice the PIANO for a few hours a day! You'll appreciate it when you get older.
If I had mod points, I'd give you a million!
...there's a SLASHDOT where everyone LOVES Microsoft and hates Linux!
BLOW JOBS PROJECTED TO DOBULE BY 2010 (Thanks to Logitec's USB electronic mouth.)
Maybe you're a Java Programmer!
While it's certainly not where the bulk of email comes from, I no longer have my email address on my business cards. If someone wants to reach me they can call.
It's all to easy for companies to decide I want to receive their daily press releases and add me to their spam list after I give them a business card.
How DARE YOU recommend that people use my domain name just so YOU get less spam!
In all seriousness--if you use a munged email address, make sure it has an invalid TLD, like name@REVERSEMOCmyhost.moc so someone won't get your mail. I (seriouosly) own the domain yahoot.com. It gets about 50K emails a day, because people think that they can disguise their email addresses by adding a "T" at the end of it. I wish I had the resources to go sue everyone who does this.
But I think I got the last laugh! I sell my spam to that site to an anti-spam company.
While not is regular use, descendants like Fortran 77 are still widely supported. (Both GNU and Microsoft sill make Fortran 77 compilers.)
It seems that, 20 years later, we're back to doing essentially the same thing.
I used to own a domain name that was a common word. (I registered it years ago, before the WWW.)
I had to give it up because spammers were forging email from "my" domain, simply because of the common word I had registered.
After spending a few weeks seeing if there was anything I could do about it (I was getting letters/phone calls from idiots (mostly Macintosh users for some reason!) who thought I was spamming them, I just decided to retire the domain.
In a perfect world, the people ruining my good name would be sitting in jail (or dead.)
Maybe now someone can port it to Macintosh!
Clearly, the moral here is that Photoshop (and similar programs) should be made ILLEGAL.
I'll be damned if some Javascript kiddie could call himeslf an engineer, too! The term "Engineer" should mean something, like a basic ability to perform scientific and mathematical tasks correctly.
Now, maybe, Macinoshes will be as fast as Windows machines.
SOMEONE needs to write a null plug in that had the same GUID as the flash plugin (or whatever the browser's looking for) so your machine LOOKS like it has flash (no "Would you like to download Flash") but doesn't really.
When loading web pages, one big delay is caused by the overhead of establishing a TCP/IP connection. If there are a dozen elements (GIFs, etc) on a page, you could require a dozen TCP/IP connections (yes, HTTP 1.1 addresses this problem a bit...).
Propel's technology uses a single TCP/IP connection that's held open for your entire connection. You connect to their special server that contains a massive cache, and sends the data to you compressed and over this single stable connection.
It also re-compresses all images, and makes sure that you aren't trying do display images bigger than what the browser's scaling it to. (You wouldn't believe how many web sites have 1 MB images displayed at postage-stamp thumbnails. Apparently stupid web designers on their Macs think that setting the width= and height= tags is equivalent to actually scaalng the images.) GIFS, especially banner ads, are converted to black and white.
No, it won't speed up MP3 downloads, but it really does make regualr web browsing on a 53K dial-up quite tolerable. I use "Propel" when I'm on the road.
Sounds like this employer's trying to discriminate against older computer professionals (a BIG problem if you're over 40 and just want to program computers for a living). Saying that you can't find young ones just means he can't find cheap ones.
Sorry, those sub-wage H1-B Chinese and Indian kids aren't qualified. Maybe you'll have to actually pay a decent wage for your computer operator!
Forget that it was from Disney. Imagine it was Japanese.