Because I may want to have more usability without upgrading my hardware. I've switched now to Ubuntu and will happily be updating and upgrading my system until it dies of old age, or gets retired. And I cannot keep using my old OS if I stay with Windows. The reason being that MS will stop patching the newly found holes, so I will be insecure.
Also, the last 3 upgrades of my system, if not 4, were already only because I'm a geek. With a reasonable amount of memory, a 7 year old system would do fine for my basic tasks. This upgrade path will definitely flatten out when I get older and get bored with system upgrades.
I'm now running Ubuntu 64 bit on my newly assembled system (8GB RAM, so I more or less have to). Finally my Windows 2K has been put out of its misery, I only kept is because of the games.
D is the language that tries to do it all. And - because of that - it fails for many projects out there. I would hate to take over a project from an experienced D application programmer; you are bound to have to learn an endless number of techniques. D will appeal to many former experienced C++ application programmers, but I would not recommend it for organizations. IMHO, C# and the.net framework is seriously trying to fall into the same trap. Java is one of the few languages that is still pretty clean, and even that now has generics put on top of it (without runtime support). With that respect, not many languages have learned much from C (and possibly Pascal).
If I would use it it would be as a C++ replacement for small projects, especially those that fit to its features.
OK, but IF a class has a finalize method, I would very much like the VM to take heed to it. This would seriously make resource de-allocation easier. Why not make it so that instances that contain finalize methods are kept track of? Of course, this is more expensive, but currently none of my classes have finalize() methods because I should not use them. Maybe they should create a tagging interface that indicates to the VM that it should do reference counting *for that instance*.
Of course, the finalize method may still not be called if the VM crashes, but most resources are closed down in that case anyway. At many times people seem to have to make choices when they don't have to. In this case both reference counting and sweeping may have their place.
I don't think the performance estimate will change much. You only have to check the input, and the complexity is within the rounds of the underlying block cipher/sponge function or whatever is used to get the bits distributed as they should be.
I blame the bugs on tight time schedules and inexperienced programmers/insufficient review. Basically, cryptographers are mathematicians at heart. There is a rather large likelyhood that C implementations are not their common playing field.
I presume you are talking about the site now, because the plugin virtually does not exist anymore, as it only supports Firefox 1.5 and anything below that. That means it has no target audience. They should keep the site though, you'd be amazed how many times I've searched for a site that the owners thought they did not need anymore. E.g. it's an indicator to me that a plugin for FF3 does not seem to exist.
Maintaining the page should not cost too much, it's just some static HTML sitting somewhere in a rather harmless fashion.
Could you replace the user agent string somehow and see how it fares as other more standard compliant browsers such as Firefox 3? Maybe someone can point out a proxy that is easy to install and is able to modify the user agent string (or simple change HTTP headers)?
Our neighbour had a guinea pig (I hate those little bastards) that attacked cats. None of the cats thought of eating that guinea pig. Guinea pigs can be terribly aggresive.
Our cat was not well trained (3 weeks old) when his mother died. We still must have a polaroid picture somewhere of a duckling sleeping between the paws of a drowsy cat. Our cat was a slightly active, but I'm hundred percent sure that if it met a full grown rat, it would quickly retreat to the top of a roof somewhere (cats generally don't fear heights, at all). It was a big cat though; he hunted by going after catches of other cats.
Gosh, I really need to see that picture of the duckling again. Feeding it spiders was fun as well.
Shame about that, at least try and find some additional information and link to the original article. I didn't know that the INQ has become a news agency of sorts. They certainly don't have the credentials for that. And the author of this article even less.
Then again, we can discuss the idea that nVidia is apparently (no proof whatsoever of the hirings) going for x86 without having the licenses to do so. As I understood, AMD and Intel (and VIA) let each other use patents and designs for x86, so I assume this is about letting nVidia in or not on that scheme.
Personally I'm wondering why nVidia and VIA don't fuse. One just has created a neat little x86 CPU and low power parts the other has neat GPU's. And I heard that VIA is going out of the chipset business anyways.
See, I've started up the discussion for you. If you don't like it you can order up another if you don't think it's any good.
So no platform or version number in there, but at least a name. Sorry if my text came out wrong, obviously I would had better written [name]-[version]-[platform].exe instead of using the lesser than / greater than signs. Stupid slashdot, I'm typing in plain text mode only, so don't use tags.
"If I were doing it, I would put the OS detection in the setup EXE itself."
Well, as long as the setup.exe is not called setup.exe. I've already got a thousand setup.exe's on my computer, thank you very much. Try the name scheme (--.exe) instead. I mean it is one file, so I can guess that it's an installer alright after downloading. Also, I can store it without any renaming so that the whole company can use it.
Doesn't work at my work. Our PC's are offline due to (pretty hard) security concerns. Even if I would have direct access, it would be through a VM. So you don't know what kind of trouble it is for us to download anything from those idiots at Microsoft. IE upgrade? Forget it, you'll automatically download the version for your current computer (the internet PC) or you have to jump through 1000 loops just to get to the right version.
Don't even get me started about idiot versions that start to download one you start the executable. Try the wordviewer (called wordviewer 2007). Well, it isn't, it's the 2003 version that tries to update itself directly after starting it. Well, that was much help, I can already read 2003 applications.
Gods, at such time I really really hate Microsoft (oh, yet *another* setup.exe, thank you!).
I am guessing that it would be embedded in a very rocky layer (thus you would have the larger rock or rocks, with the tools + loads of dirt between them).
Also note: I've got nothing to do at all with MYA, and I will deny any relations I don't have with her (there goes +1 insightful, oh well).
I'll take these kind of actions seriously when: - I don't need the Media Player for listening to state sponsored radio programs or television shows. - Local governments don't rely on the.doc format anymore (although with OO this is less of a problem) - All government sites run fine in standard compliant browsers - Applications (like tax applications) are available for a freely available operating system at the same time as Windows - Schools are pushed to learn people IT skills, not Microsoft skills - Government and semi-government rely less on Microsoft only products and stops buying billions worth of licensing from Microsoft
Currently it feels like they are slapping Microsoft with one hand while feeding it with another. OK, since the slapping probably also means that Microsoft has to give some money back, it makes a slight bit of sense. But currently it is not a nice situation at all.
At least my bank and the public transport sector are platform independent, so we're getting to our money and somewhere.
Does it matter? There seem to be enough people buying for the entertainment economy to prosper. For the music industry you'd better perform live, or you are going to have tough times. Well, that should nicely take care of the freeloaders in the industry. Even if there is no causation, it does show that there is still plenty of money to be made in the industry.
How many people do you think know that the Windows calculator does this? I've already had bad results before I knew this little fact because I use the calculator in scientific mode and other people use the standard calculator mode.
Furthermore, they still use a TFT unfriendly color scheme. Still those ugly, low contrast pinkish fonts on the keys.
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SOA as a word at least has more content than your reply. And for some reason you get modded up for it as well.
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It also scales much better, and it does matter less where the services run. As far as I know, pipes don't do that. Pipes also don't know what goes through them, and do not have management interfaces. What you are talking about is much lower level stuff than SOA's, at least as far as I have read into it.
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Yes, although this is more about services interacting with each other, something that Unix is not too good on (named pipes only go so far). Unix (or at least the scripting part of it) is more like command line tools working together, mostly on the same box. SOA's are more indifferent on where the services are run.
Well, you may not have ATM but since ADSL's are mostly managed by large telco's, the chances are pretty big. My ADSL (and all other ADSL in the Netherlands as far as I know) uses PPPoA, which uses ATM, which uses AAL5, which uses cell switching using cells with 48 byte payload and 5 byte overhead (there was an argument between a group that wanted 32 bytes and one that wanted 64 bytes so they compromised).
22 Mbs? Are you sure? Officially ADSL2+ (not ADSL2) maxes out on 24 Mb/s, but I'll be damned if I've ever heard of anyone reaching that limit. And that's raw traffic, which is different from maximum download speeds. In many cases ADSL IP traffic will be put on top of ATM, which in itself will bring a 15% overhead charge (5 bytes overhead as part of a 53 byte cell).
In the Netherlands, the top cable speeds are about 30 Mb/s, but 100 Mb/s is not going to be too much of a problem. Which is why the largest telecom provider will go for fiber to the home in all probability.
Oh, I had a third year computer science student ask how to save things in office. The floppy disk icon did not ring a bell, because he did not have a floppy disk (the machine was networked of course). Don't forget that some of these institutions explicitly state that you don't need previous computer knowledge, at least mine did when I joined it.
As everybody does. In the library or even more likely, at work. Or a neighbour.
Or as my aunt does, she asks a computer literate nephew. This nephew is paid using home made or Chinese meals and advice about non-technical things. That nephew would be me of course.
It seems that this woman seriously needs to have more friends. How can you have not a single friend without knowledge on computers? Is that even possible nowadays?
As usual, UK is not bound by the European Union on this one, so stop your non-sense about European policy stuff already. You may scream and shout when the UK finally joins Europe, not before. Informative, my ass! I would consider this uninformed flame bait mixed with a lot of wishful thinking.
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Because I may want to have more usability without upgrading my hardware. I've switched now to Ubuntu and will happily be updating and upgrading my system until it dies of old age, or gets retired. And I cannot keep using my old OS if I stay with Windows. The reason being that MS will stop patching the newly found holes, so I will be insecure.
Also, the last 3 upgrades of my system, if not 4, were already only because I'm a geek. With a reasonable amount of memory, a 7 year old system would do fine for my basic tasks. This upgrade path will definitely flatten out when I get older and get bored with system upgrades.
I'm now running Ubuntu 64 bit on my newly assembled system (8GB RAM, so I more or less have to). Finally my Windows 2K has been put out of its misery, I only kept is because of the games.
D is the language that tries to do it all. And - because of that - it fails for many projects out there. I would hate to take over a project from an experienced D application programmer; you are bound to have to learn an endless number of techniques. D will appeal to many former experienced C++ application programmers, but I would not recommend it for organizations. IMHO, C# and the .net framework is seriously trying to fall into the same trap. Java is one of the few languages that is still pretty clean, and even that now has generics put on top of it (without runtime support). With that respect, not many languages have learned much from C (and possibly Pascal).
If I would use it it would be as a C++ replacement for small projects, especially those that fit to its features.
OK, but IF a class has a finalize method, I would very much like the VM to take heed to it. This would seriously make resource de-allocation easier. Why not make it so that instances that contain finalize methods are kept track of? Of course, this is more expensive, but currently none of my classes have finalize() methods because I should not use them. Maybe they should create a tagging interface that indicates to the VM that it should do reference counting *for that instance*.
Of course, the finalize method may still not be called if the VM crashes, but most resources are closed down in that case anyway. At many times people seem to have to make choices when they don't have to. In this case both reference counting and sweeping may have their place.
I don't think the performance estimate will change much. You only have to check the input, and the complexity is within the rounds of the underlying block cipher/sponge function or whatever is used to get the bits distributed as they should be.
I blame the bugs on tight time schedules and inexperienced programmers/insufficient review. Basically, cryptographers are mathematicians at heart. There is a rather large likelyhood that C implementations are not their common playing field.
I presume you are talking about the site now, because the plugin virtually does not exist anymore, as it only supports Firefox 1.5 and anything below that. That means it has no target audience. They should keep the site though, you'd be amazed how many times I've searched for a site that the owners thought they did not need anymore. E.g. it's an indicator to me that a plugin for FF3 does not seem to exist.
Maintaining the page should not cost too much, it's just some static HTML sitting somewhere in a rather harmless fashion.
Could you replace the user agent string somehow and see how it fares as other more standard compliant browsers such as Firefox 3? Maybe someone can point out a proxy that is easy to install and is able to modify the user agent string (or simple change HTTP headers)?
Our neighbour had a guinea pig (I hate those little bastards) that attacked cats. None of the cats thought of eating that guinea pig. Guinea pigs can be terribly aggresive.
Our cat was not well trained (3 weeks old) when his mother died. We still must have a polaroid picture somewhere of a duckling sleeping between the paws of a drowsy cat. Our cat was a slightly active, but I'm hundred percent sure that if it met a full grown rat, it would quickly retreat to the top of a roof somewhere (cats generally don't fear heights, at all). It was a big cat though; he hunted by going after catches of other cats.
Gosh, I really need to see that picture of the duckling again. Feeding it spiders was fun as well.
Or is it the K desktop environment even?
Shame about that, at least try and find some additional information and link to the original article. I didn't know that the INQ has become a news agency of sorts. They certainly don't have the credentials for that. And the author of this article even less.
Then again, we can discuss the idea that nVidia is apparently (no proof whatsoever of the hirings) going for x86 without having the licenses to do so. As I understood, AMD and Intel (and VIA) let each other use patents and designs for x86, so I assume this is about letting nVidia in or not on that scheme.
Personally I'm wondering why nVidia and VIA don't fuse. One just has created a neat little x86 CPU and low power parts the other has neat GPU's. And I heard that VIA is going out of the chipset business anyways.
See, I've started up the discussion for you. If you don't like it you can order up another if you don't think it's any good.
So no platform or version number in there, but at least a name. Sorry if my text came out wrong, obviously I would had better written [name]-[version]-[platform].exe instead of using the lesser than / greater than signs. Stupid slashdot, I'm typing in plain text mode only, so don't use tags.
"If I were doing it, I would put the OS detection in the setup EXE itself."
Well, as long as the setup.exe is not called setup.exe. I've already got a thousand setup.exe's on my computer, thank you very much. Try the name scheme (--.exe) instead. I mean it is one file, so I can guess that it's an installer alright after downloading. Also, I can store it without any renaming so that the whole company can use it.
Doesn't work at my work. Our PC's are offline due to (pretty hard) security concerns. Even if I would have direct access, it would be through a VM. So you don't know what kind of trouble it is for us to download anything from those idiots at Microsoft. IE upgrade? Forget it, you'll automatically download the version for your current computer (the internet PC) or you have to jump through 1000 loops just to get to the right version.
Don't even get me started about idiot versions that start to download one you start the executable. Try the wordviewer (called wordviewer 2007). Well, it isn't, it's the 2003 version that tries to update itself directly after starting it. Well, that was much help, I can already read 2003 applications.
Gods, at such time I really really hate Microsoft (oh, yet *another* setup.exe, thank you!).
I am guessing that it would be embedded in a very rocky layer (thus you would have the larger rock or rocks, with the tools + loads of dirt between them).
Also note: I've got nothing to do at all with MYA, and I will deny any relations I don't have with her (there goes +1 insightful, oh well).
I'll take these kind of actions seriously when: .doc format anymore (although with OO this is less of a problem)
- I don't need the Media Player for listening to state sponsored radio programs or television shows.
- Local governments don't rely on the
- All government sites run fine in standard compliant browsers
- Applications (like tax applications) are available for a freely available operating system at the same time as Windows
- Schools are pushed to learn people IT skills, not Microsoft skills
- Government and semi-government rely less on Microsoft only products and stops buying billions worth of licensing from Microsoft
Currently it feels like they are slapping Microsoft with one hand while feeding it with another. OK, since the slapping probably also means that Microsoft has to give some money back, it makes a slight bit of sense. But currently it is not a nice situation at all.
At least my bank and the public transport sector are platform independent, so we're getting to our money and somewhere.
Does it matter? There seem to be enough people buying for the entertainment economy to prosper. For the music industry you'd better perform live, or you are going to have tough times. Well, that should nicely take care of the freeloaders in the industry. Even if there is no causation, it does show that there is still plenty of money to be made in the industry.
How many people do you think know that the Windows calculator does this? I've already had bad results before I knew this little fact because I use the calculator in scientific mode and other people use the standard calculator mode.
Furthermore, they still use a TFT unfriendly color scheme. Still those ugly, low contrast pinkish fonts on the keys.
SOA as a word at least has more content than your reply. And for some reason you get modded up for it as well.
It also scales much better, and it does matter less where the services run. As far as I know, pipes don't do that. Pipes also don't know what goes through them, and do not have management interfaces. What you are talking about is much lower level stuff than SOA's, at least as far as I have read into it.
Yes, although this is more about services interacting with each other, something that Unix is not too good on (named pipes only go so far). Unix (or at least the scripting part of it) is more like command line tools working together, mostly on the same box. SOA's are more indifferent on where the services are run.
Well, you may not have ATM but since ADSL's are mostly managed by large telco's, the chances are pretty big. My ADSL (and all other ADSL in the Netherlands as far as I know) uses PPPoA, which uses ATM, which uses AAL5, which uses cell switching using cells with 48 byte payload and 5 byte overhead (there was an argument between a group that wanted 32 bytes and one that wanted 64 bytes so they compromised).
More info here:
http://pflog.net/dsl_overhead/
"You can also get that over ADSL2"
22 Mbs? Are you sure? Officially ADSL2+ (not ADSL2) maxes out on 24 Mb/s, but I'll be damned if I've ever heard of anyone reaching that limit. And that's raw traffic, which is different from maximum download speeds. In many cases ADSL IP traffic will be put on top of ATM, which in itself will bring a 15% overhead charge (5 bytes overhead as part of a 53 byte cell).
In the Netherlands, the top cable speeds are about 30 Mb/s, but 100 Mb/s is not going to be too much of a problem. Which is why the largest telecom provider will go for fiber to the home in all probability.
Oh, I had a third year computer science student ask how to save things in office. The floppy disk icon did not ring a bell, because he did not have a floppy disk (the machine was networked of course). Don't forget that some of these institutions explicitly state that you don't need previous computer knowledge, at least mine did when I joined it.
Of course, this was ages ago, I'm getting old :)
As everybody does. In the library or even more likely, at work. Or a neighbour.
Or as my aunt does, she asks a computer literate nephew. This nephew is paid using home made or Chinese meals and advice about non-technical things. That nephew would be me of course.
It seems that this woman seriously needs to have more friends. How can you have not a single friend without knowledge on computers? Is that even possible nowadays?
Yes, but that's true for both OpenOffice and Word 2007. You can easily set the default in both application suites to .doc as well.
As usual, UK is not bound by the European Union on this one, so stop your non-sense about European policy stuff already. You may scream and shout when the UK finally joins Europe, not before. Informative, my ass! I would consider this uninformed flame bait mixed with a lot of wishful thinking.