It is easy to become a programmer. Pick up VB for dummies and off you go. Managers for some reason think that all programmers are the same and does not put a high enough value on experience
I think this is cool. Although the implementation for humans does not make sense. For Robots to navigate this opens a whole new dimension. What stops you from adding the inside of buildings to the database. Sure GPS is accurate but with this you can be even more accurate. Put the data in a distributed database to solve the workload.
Just think for a moment if SCO was right and IBM's license is revoked. IBM will have to pay the licence fee again. SCO will use the money to pay for the lawsuit against IBM.
Given all the patches and virii. What is the longest uptime for W2k, W2k3 and XP boxes? It not remote updates but remote booting.:) And it does seem the hackers are busy. My ports where scanned twice last night with many attemps to connect to port 135.
So the ISP is going to start playing GOD and decide what traffic we can and can not have. Sorry the IRC traffic is using to much resources. CHEERS IRC!!!
Next ISP's will start charging us to open or close a port. and that will be the end for free internet gaming.
If OS creators are ready to accept the blame for their security flaws we would not have this issue.
Just a thought... I downloaded the last service pack for W2K and it was 129MB. Windows install from one disk which tells me that roughly 20% of the operating system gets replaced by the SP.. My maths is (129/640)*100=20.XX... 640 being the size of a normal CD and assuming the One install disk for W2K is packed.....
OK so where are the analysts that said we should not implement Linux until the SCO thing is settled. If they are non biased they should say we should now wait with MS until this is settled. That definitly going to be my advice to management
Simply up to now every-jack-in-the-box in the government has developed/deployed a system for specific tasks in the government. Now our the people at the top want the information in these thousands of system at the touch of a button. Guess what?? They can't because the stuff are all proprietry and you can't get to the data all at once.
I have done a couple of projects for the government in SA and I can tell you this is to make the field level. Microsoft is very dominent in the government on all levels. The projects I have worked on we had not choice but to use Microsoft. 'You will use it and make it work' has been said to me many times over. And the government has been burnt by this many times over. Our tax payers will be suprised how much money had been wasted on failed projects because Microsoft just could not do the job where other alternatives would have been able to.
In SA we used to get all the hero animation series dubbed into different languages. You could switch on the radio to listen to the original english soundtrack. Spiderman was dubbed into Zulu and became Rabobi. A local metal band did a cover of the Zulu soundtrack.
Domafanya ba ya tsetsie i"Green Goblin" baba kae i"Dr . Octopus"
Botswa i"arch enemies" otswa a Rabobi
Rabobi banetsa i"spider sense is tingling".
Di gona yoa i"Green Goblin" "Dr . Octopus"
Ya tokoloshi "medicine", Hao!
Rabobi ba ya gona "Dr . Octopus" "left right"
i"Green Goblin" "uppercut" "KO one time"
Strange how emergency procedures are ussually seen as to costly. Then the shit hits the fan and suddenly the budget for emergency procedures are almost more than the original project. I think its great that they can now monitor the shuttles entry. They did not find a lot of it after the crash and (from my point anyway) the best clues as to what happened so far are from amuteur footage. I'm suprised NASA did not have its own video cameras pointing to the shuttle on entry or lift of. On TV you see that one video clip of some camera mounted on the nose of a rocket that lifts of. Why does the shuttle not have one mounted? I'm sure a camera like that would have noticed the tile being broken. hmmmmmm the camera though migh get fried on reentry. Don't you just love budgets cuts.
I don't like backdoors since they create all kinds of security leaks. If you properly test your system before going live you don't need a back door to debug.
BUT once I was asked by one of my bosses to put a backdoor in a system. The client was getting very hard assed about paying the money he owed the company for the development of the system. Inside sources warned us that the client is going to grab our software and cancel the contract.
What happened? We installed the system and sure enough the client told us a week later to go stuff ourselves. hehe a few clicks and what do you know the program suddenly developed a few 'bugs'. To this day the client never knew what hit him but it only took two days before we were back on the job with a bank balance the way it should be. The 8 hours of effort putting in a backdoor sure as hell beat the hundreds of hours in a court.
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It is easy to become a programmer. Pick up VB for dummies and off you go. Managers for some reason think that all programmers are the same and does not put a high enough value on experience
I think this is cool. Although the implementation for humans does not make sense. For Robots to navigate this opens a whole new dimension. What stops you from adding the inside of buildings to the database. Sure GPS is accurate but with this you can be even more accurate. Put the data in a distributed database to solve the workload.
I just has a though: 1. Write virus 2. Deploy Virus on Internet 3. Ext... Get license money from everyone who 'installed' the virus 4. Profit
Just think for a moment if SCO was right and IBM's license is revoked. IBM will have to pay the licence fee again. SCO will use the money to pay for the lawsuit against IBM.
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Given all the patches and virii. What is the longest uptime for W2k, W2k3 and XP boxes? It not remote updates but remote booting. :) And it does seem the hackers are busy. My ports where scanned twice last night with many attemps to connect to port 135.
So the ISP is going to start playing GOD and decide what traffic we can and can not have. Sorry the IRC traffic is using to much resources. CHEERS IRC!!! Next ISP's will start charging us to open or close a port. and that will be the end for free internet gaming. If OS creators are ready to accept the blame for their security flaws we would not have this issue.
Just a thought... I downloaded the last service pack for W2K and it was 129MB. Windows install from one disk which tells me that roughly 20% of the operating system gets replaced by the SP.. My maths is (129/640)*100=20.XX ... 640 being the size of a normal CD and assuming the One install disk for W2K is packed.....
OK so where are the analysts that said we should not implement Linux until the SCO thing is settled. If they are non biased they should say we should now wait with MS until this is settled. That definitly going to be my advice to management
huh?!.... there is a lawsuit? Who is SCO? What is UnixWare? ....... and sometimes ..... What is GPL? What is Linux?
Simply up to now every-jack-in-the-box in the government has developed/deployed a system for specific tasks in the government. Now our the people at the top want the information in these thousands of system at the touch of a button. Guess what?? They can't because the stuff are all proprietry and you can't get to the data all at once.
I have done a couple of projects for the government in SA and I can tell you this is to make the field level. Microsoft is very dominent in the government on all levels. The projects I have worked on we had not choice but to use Microsoft. 'You will use it and make it work' has been said to me many times over. And the government has been burnt by this many times over. Our tax payers will be suprised how much money had been wasted on failed projects because Microsoft just could not do the job where other alternatives would have been able to.
1) Create a roof mounted convyer system in the office.
2) Hook the chairs to it.
In SA we used to get all the hero animation series dubbed into different languages. You could switch on the radio to listen to the original english soundtrack. Spiderman was dubbed into Zulu and became Rabobi. A local metal band did a cover of the Zulu soundtrack. Domafanya ba ya tsetsie i"Green Goblin" baba kae i"Dr . Octopus"
Botswa i"arch enemies" otswa a Rabobi
Rabobi banetsa i"spider sense is tingling".
Di gona yoa i"Green Goblin" "Dr . Octopus"
Ya tokoloshi "medicine", Hao!
Rabobi ba ya gona "Dr . Octopus" "left right"
i"Green Goblin" "uppercut" "KO one time"
I vote that the new Controls should be a PS2 controls. Then you can do your license with "Need for Speed"
Strange how emergency procedures are ussually seen as to costly. Then the shit hits the fan and suddenly the budget for emergency procedures are almost more than the original project. I think its great that they can now monitor the shuttles entry. They did not find a lot of it after the crash and (from my point anyway) the best clues as to what happened so far are from amuteur footage. I'm suprised NASA did not have its own video cameras pointing to the shuttle on entry or lift of. On TV you see that one video clip of some camera mounted on the nose of a rocket that lifts of. Why does the shuttle not have one mounted? I'm sure a camera like that would have noticed the tile being broken. hmmmmmm the camera though migh get fried on reentry. Don't you just love budgets cuts.
Mech Warrior 4 VS. Mech Warrior 3. Man did they screw up the game after they bought it.
Well we can always just end the debate and give everything new names. 'big-round-objects' and 'Shiny-thing-projecting-light' makes a lot more sense.
I don't like backdoors since they create all kinds of security leaks. If you properly test your system before going live you don't need a back door to debug.
BUT once I was asked by one of my bosses to put a backdoor in a system. The client was getting very hard assed about paying the money he owed the company for the development of the system. Inside sources warned us that the client is going to grab our software and cancel the contract.
What happened? We installed the system and sure enough the client told us a week later to go stuff ourselves. hehe a few clicks and what do you know the program suddenly developed a few 'bugs'. To this day the client never knew what hit him but it only took two days before we were back on the job with a bank balance the way it should be. The 8 hours of effort putting in a backdoor sure as hell beat the hundreds of hours in a court.