I don't think DRM has anything to do with spyware. In Vista you run everything as normal user, not administator, but restricted user. Even admins are run as users. When ever some program needs admin priviledges, Vista will ask if this is OK and asks for administrator password. This means that there is no way (excluding programming errors and such) that spyware kits can install 3rd party drivers without user's knowledge. If user says that "ok, go ahead and install whatever you like" then it's (s)he's headache.
DRM is of course another thing but you know what... You don't have to buy stuff from Blizzard or any other company that is using evil DRM thingies. It's just like when I'm buying music on these pre-Vista-days. I pick the music store which doesn't have DRM stuff or their policy is accetable for me. Music, games, films and such aren't like food or water which you have to buy every day.
Imagine a sonic-like game where you are controlling the speed of your character by the angle you tilt the controller, as he cascades over hills and obstacles and through turns
So its impossible to operate this controller when you are drunk? Then its no-buy for me:)
I loved the part! It had nothing to do with the story but it looked great! I buy paintings (well, if I had money) because they look great so why wouldn't I watch some movie or part of the movie because it looks great. Only thing I like better in the Jar-j.. Phantom menace is the light saber dueling.
So you are saying that I should ditch the Norton Internet Security which I bought and which functions just as I wanted: it blocks viruses, worms, spyware and such. I don't have Spybot on my computer(s) but if I did and Norton wouldn't have blocked it, then I would be screaming my money back.
2800000 users per server, not all at once of course, isn't a big deal? You'd better have a good starvation prevention mechanism (situation when there's multiple clients sending queries and waiting for answer; if you serve them with FIFO-principle clients and the end of the line get really pissed off) even if passthrough is only "some bytes." Also when the maximum amount of TCP connections is 65536 (16 bit unsigned integer in TCP-frame) simultanously, that is really amazing thing they've done or am I missing some big picture here?
IRC support... Oh, you must mean those "RTFM!!!" and "MAN!!!" and even "Use teh fscking google u moron!!! * You have been kicked from channel by 1337linuxuser" support channels.
Oh yes, comments. Well we use comments as version/history information. We have every code file and project file on a single samba-shared volume. When somebody wants to change something he/she shouts "I'M OPENING THE FILE X, DON'T TOUCH IT NOW" and he/she has done modifications he/she adds very informative comment somewhere in the file (name/date/what was done), saves file back to disk and yells "OK, FILE X IS FREE NOW"
Documents... There is no documents. Who needs those anyways? It's much more fun to code something when you really don't have any idea what its supposed to do.
Test plans? Nah, waste of time I say!
Testing? Well, somebody runs it and if it doesn't crash, it works.
I must say I'm in the best damn work place ever! And now if you please, I'll go and find some ethernet cabel to strangle myself.
I've written many apps that reads data from databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle) and/or files (XML, CSV), opens Excel or Word or even Powerpoint and creates documents with nice charts and so on. I've done this using Microsoft Visual Studio 6, 2003 and 2005 but what I've heard, you don't have to use MS's IDEs or other tools for this. Office apps I used through COM-interface. In fact I've done some tools to convert stuff from Excel and Word to other formats throught those interfaces. I've written all these apps using C++, C# and VB.NET.
Is there something similar in OpenOffice? Do I have to write XML files (and is there tools for this, or must I do it by hand) or can I use some decent API to create sheets?
So I have this apple in my proprietary tree, which I decide to release under GPL3... Now if I eat the apple and next mornign go to the toilet, is my poop licensed under GPL3 also?
people who download a couple of songs for their own personal use i.e. not loads of stuff, and not to distribute further
Take notice that in some P2P network every downloader is a uploader at the same time. This is something that some people don't understand when they are legally downloading copyrighted material. At the same time when you start to download, you start to upload the same material to other users and this is where you are offencing copyright laws.
I figured out that you use Visual Studio.NET since you are programming VB.NET. If that's the case just enable "Generate XML Documentation File" from project properties and use code comments to generate documentation. I'm not sure how this is done in C/VB/VB.NET but in C# you use those/// comments. When you compile your project, Visual Studio generates XML file which has all the appropriate comments in it. After this you can use NDoc to generate real documentation in CHM, HTML2 or MSDN style formats.
But could that also mean that problems are exploited more quickly?
I mean with open source product you could just pick up the source code and look for problems and holes in it. After this you are ready to exploit what ever system uses that code.
With closed source you can't just look into the source, but you have to try blindly different kinds of situations and give different kinds of inputs to applications; look for problems more iterative and timeconsuming way.
Does this mean that all work contracts aren't valid or that employee can decide which clauses in his contract he/she follows and which not? I mean this ruins the whole idea of personal contracts (excluding clauses which are clearly against the law).
In Finland we have this non-competion clause in almost every contract (well, my current one doesn't). There are some rules how they are executed though. Primarily they are for executives and they are really enforceable if former employer wishes to. But former employer must have proofs that you have caused them monetary losses, not by resigning, but joining the competitor. Of course you don't have to tell your former employer that you are joining competitor...
I understand that you can't leave all your knowledge behind when you change employer but I think it's highly unmoral to break you contract. My opinion is that if you knowingly sign a contract which you know has some invalid or unenforceable clauses, you should tell the other side about that. Otherwise you are misleading your employer, not in unlawful way perhaps.
If you don't like non-competing clause you can ask for it to be taken off the contract, there's almost always little room for negotiations. And if your coutry's laws prohibits these kinds of clauses you should tell your employer-to-be about this. If he kicks you out of the office after that tell him they are not worthy of your services:)
Ps. I hope I got all the employer/employee words correctly. My mother language isn't english...
Yeah but you could read someone's USB stick into a binary file and distribute it on internet with register plate info with it "Want to drive my neighbour's car: usb.bin FIIFOUFAM-12345":)
Yeah. I wasn't answering directly at you but didn't felt like starting a new thread about this. Sorry about that.
But anyway... I can't think anything else but fat which would be bad for health. Finnish people drink lots of milk (nonfat), some even several liters a day, without any side effects. Well, if you happen to be a bodybuilder, then you might want to mix your protein powder to something else than milk because milk tends to slow down the speed which protein gets to the body; but on the other hand this is desired effect when you take protein before going to sleep (because of the hormone burst 1.5 hours after falling to sleep).
Cream has lots of fat and cholesterol compared to milk so I suggest not to use cream on anything.
Slightly off the discussion... There is stuff called 'piimä', I think it's 'sour milk' in english. It has all the good effects of milk and it also calms down stomach acids. But trust me, you don't want to mix sour milk with coffey:)
Well, I don't know why compare just two operating system, why not bunch of them, but I can figure out the reason. There is so many rumours about Windows that are causing harm to Microsoft. I don't know how average slashdot troll ("OMGXIITLOL! My XP crashes ALL THE TIME") affects corporate managers though.
But I'd like to see comparison between Windows, Linux, Open/Net/FreeBSD, Solaris and some other UNIXes if it would be rationally made and conducted. Of course there would be some issues like "why didn't they use kernel option X and Y or software option Z" but it would be fun to read.
Most of the people in the world can't drink milk but we up here at north (Finland) drink it daily. I personally consume about 1 liter nonfat milk a day. Milk has some good elements like calsium and protein (casein, which is good for example bodybuilders) and such but if your stomach can't tolerate lactose then it's bad. In fact my little brother can't even eat candies, which are made of milk, without vomiting the rest of the day.
But caffeine... I read somewhere that caffeine raises kalium levels in body and this is really bad. Too much kalium causes numbess and soreness in muscles and somekinds of problems with heart, maybe even death. So if your kalium levels are high, stay away form caffeine. Also if you are deeply depressed caffeine can be bad for you (ask your doctor). And also too much caffeine in blood kills you for sure, but I don't think there is no-one that can drink that much coffey in a day.
I personally drink many cups of coffee during the day. If I wouldn't, I think I would be taking amfetamine to keep myself awake. I'm a programmer:)
NetApplications just published study that marketshare of FF was 8.71% in June and has dropped from since to 8.07% while IE went 86.56% to 87.2%. Safari climbed to 2.13% (don't know from where) and other browsers hold their ground: Netscape 1.5%, Mozilla 0.52%, Opera 4.9% and others 0.09%.
I heard that new Opera comes with IRC-client bundled. So there is fully tested operable network already, which many people is using all the time and then there is web browser which among other things (like browsing the web:) can connect to this network. I don't see point for a web-based IM interface if it is lacking all the nice multimedia features for example MSN Messenger can offer over IRC.
I run Debian (I think 2.2.14 kernel or something like that) on SparcStation 5 70 MHz 32MB. I have Apache + PHP + MySQL on it and it runs pretty nicely. Biggest problems are that making SSH connection to it takes something like 50 seconds and when I used to run IRC-bot on it, it tend to be reaaaally slow.
Well, it's not my number 1 server anymore, but it's good for IRC-chatting when my wife wants to use our main desktop computer.
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I don't think DRM has anything to do with spyware. In Vista you run everything as normal user, not administator, but restricted user. Even admins are run as users. When ever some program needs admin priviledges, Vista will ask if this is OK and asks for administrator password. This means that there is no way (excluding programming errors and such) that spyware kits can install 3rd party drivers without user's knowledge. If user says that "ok, go ahead and install whatever you like" then it's (s)he's headache.
DRM is of course another thing but you know what... You don't have to buy stuff from Blizzard or any other company that is using evil DRM thingies. It's just like when I'm buying music on these pre-Vista-days. I pick the music store which doesn't have DRM stuff or their policy is accetable for me. Music, games, films and such aren't like food or water which you have to buy every day.
So its impossible to operate this controller when you are drunk? Then its no-buy for me :)
I loved the part! It had nothing to do with the story but it looked great! I buy paintings (well, if I had money) because they look great so why wouldn't I watch some movie or part of the movie because it looks great. Only thing I like better in the Jar-j.. Phantom menace is the light saber dueling.
But you still can't get more than 40 fps in Counter Strike Source.
So you are saying that I should ditch the Norton Internet Security which I bought and which functions just as I wanted: it blocks viruses, worms, spyware and such. I don't have Spybot on my computer(s) but if I did and Norton wouldn't have blocked it, then I would be screaming my money back.
RedHat and SuSE got certification last year. I wouldn't count that very long time. You might want to check this: http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/vpl/vpl_type.html#o peratingsystem
2800000 users per server, not all at once of course, isn't a big deal? You'd better have a good starvation prevention mechanism (situation when there's multiple clients sending queries and waiting for answer; if you serve them with FIFO-principle clients and the end of the line get really pissed off) even if passthrough is only "some bytes." Also when the maximum amount of TCP connections is 65536 (16 bit unsigned integer in TCP-frame) simultanously, that is really amazing thing they've done or am I missing some big picture here?
IRC support... Oh, you must mean those "RTFM!!!" and "MAN!!!" and even "Use teh fscking google u moron!!! * You have been kicked from channel by 1337linuxuser" support channels.
Oh yes, comments. Well we use comments as version/history information. We have every code file and project file on a single samba-shared volume. When somebody wants to change something he/she shouts "I'M OPENING THE FILE X, DON'T TOUCH IT NOW" and he/she has done modifications he/she adds very informative comment somewhere in the file (name/date/what was done), saves file back to disk and yells "OK, FILE X IS FREE NOW"
Documents... There is no documents. Who needs those anyways? It's much more fun to code something when you really don't have any idea what its supposed to do.
Test plans? Nah, waste of time I say!
Testing? Well, somebody runs it and if it doesn't crash, it works.
I must say I'm in the best damn work place ever! And now if you please, I'll go and find some ethernet cabel to strangle myself.
I've written many apps that reads data from databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle) and/or files (XML, CSV), opens Excel or Word or even Powerpoint and creates documents with nice charts and so on. I've done this using Microsoft Visual Studio 6, 2003 and 2005 but what I've heard, you don't have to use MS's IDEs or other tools for this. Office apps I used through COM-interface. In fact I've done some tools to convert stuff from Excel and Word to other formats throught those interfaces. I've written all these apps using C++, C# and VB.NET. Is there something similar in OpenOffice? Do I have to write XML files (and is there tools for this, or must I do it by hand) or can I use some decent API to create sheets?
So I have this apple in my proprietary tree, which I decide to release under GPL3... Now if I eat the apple and next mornign go to the toilet, is my poop licensed under GPL3 also?
I figured out that you use Visual Studio .NET since you are programming VB.NET. If that's the case just enable "Generate XML Documentation File" from project properties and use code comments to generate documentation. I'm not sure how this is done in C/VB/VB.NET but in C# you use those /// comments. When you compile your project, Visual Studio generates XML file which has all the appropriate comments in it. After this you can use NDoc to generate real documentation in CHM, HTML2 or MSDN style formats.
But could that also mean that problems are exploited more quickly?
I mean with open source product you could just pick up the source code and look for problems and holes in it. After this you are ready to exploit what ever system uses that code.
With closed source you can't just look into the source, but you have to try blindly different kinds of situations and give different kinds of inputs to applications; look for problems more iterative and timeconsuming way.
Just couple of thoughts...
Does it dump core? And how about panicing?
Does this mean that all work contracts aren't valid or that employee can decide which clauses in his contract he/she follows and which not? I mean this ruins the whole idea of personal contracts (excluding clauses which are clearly against the law).
:)
In Finland we have this non-competion clause in almost every contract (well, my current one doesn't). There are some rules how they are executed though. Primarily they are for executives and they are really enforceable if former employer wishes to. But former employer must have proofs that you have caused them monetary losses, not by resigning, but joining the competitor. Of course you don't have to tell your former employer that you are joining competitor...
I understand that you can't leave all your knowledge behind when you change employer but I think it's highly unmoral to break you contract. My opinion is that if you knowingly sign a contract which you know has some invalid or unenforceable clauses, you should tell the other side about that. Otherwise you are misleading your employer, not in unlawful way perhaps.
If you don't like non-competing clause you can ask for it to be taken off the contract, there's almost always little room for negotiations. And if your coutry's laws prohibits these kinds of clauses you should tell your employer-to-be about this. If he kicks you out of the office after that tell him they are not worthy of your services
Ps. I hope I got all the employer/employee words correctly. My mother language isn't english...
Yeah but you could read someone's USB stick into a binary file and distribute it on internet with register plate info with it "Want to drive my neighbour's car: usb.bin FIIFOUFAM-12345" :)
Yeah. I wasn't answering directly at you but didn't felt like starting a new thread about this. Sorry about that.
:)
But anyway... I can't think anything else but fat which would be bad for health. Finnish people drink lots of milk (nonfat), some even several liters a day, without any side effects. Well, if you happen to be a bodybuilder, then you might want to mix your protein powder to something else than milk because milk tends to slow down the speed which protein gets to the body; but on the other hand this is desired effect when you take protein before going to sleep (because of the hormone burst 1.5 hours after falling to sleep).
Cream has lots of fat and cholesterol compared to milk so I suggest not to use cream on anything.
Slightly off the discussion... There is stuff called 'piimä', I think it's 'sour milk' in english. It has all the good effects of milk and it also calms down stomach acids. But trust me, you don't want to mix sour milk with coffey
Well, I don't know why compare just two operating system, why not bunch of them, but I can figure out the reason. There is so many rumours about Windows that are causing harm to Microsoft. I don't know how average slashdot troll ("OMGXIITLOL! My XP crashes ALL THE TIME") affects corporate managers though.
But I'd like to see comparison between Windows, Linux, Open/Net/FreeBSD, Solaris and some other UNIXes if it would be rationally made and conducted. Of course there would be some issues like "why didn't they use kernel option X and Y or software option Z" but it would be fun to read.
Most of the people in the world can't drink milk but we up here at north (Finland) drink it daily. I personally consume about 1 liter nonfat milk a day. Milk has some good elements like calsium and protein (casein, which is good for example bodybuilders) and such but if your stomach can't tolerate lactose then it's bad. In fact my little brother can't even eat candies, which are made of milk, without vomiting the rest of the day.
:)
But caffeine... I read somewhere that caffeine raises kalium levels in body and this is really bad. Too much kalium causes numbess and soreness in muscles and somekinds of problems with heart, maybe even death. So if your kalium levels are high, stay away form caffeine. Also if you are deeply depressed caffeine can be bad for you (ask your doctor). And also too much caffeine in blood kills you for sure, but I don't think there is no-one that can drink that much coffey in a day.
I personally drink many cups of coffee during the day. If I wouldn't, I think I would be taking amfetamine to keep myself awake. I'm a programmer
NetApplications just published study that marketshare of FF was 8.71% in June and has dropped from since to 8.07% while IE went 86.56% to 87.2%. Safari climbed to 2.13% (don't know from where) and other browsers hold their ground: Netscape 1.5%, Mozilla 0.52%, Opera 4.9% and others 0.09%.
I heard that new Opera comes with IRC-client bundled. So there is fully tested operable network already, which many people is using all the time and then there is web browser which among other things (like browsing the web:) can connect to this network. I don't see point for a web-based IM interface if it is lacking all the nice multimedia features for example MSN Messenger can offer over IRC.
I run Debian (I think 2.2.14 kernel or something like that) on SparcStation 5 70 MHz 32MB. I have Apache + PHP + MySQL on it and it runs pretty nicely. Biggest problems are that making SSH connection to it takes something like 50 seconds and when I used to run IRC-bot on it, it tend to be reaaaally slow.
Well, it's not my number 1 server anymore, but it's good for IRC-chatting when my wife wants to use our main desktop computer.