There are much better ways to work on a document in distributed fashion (e.g. cvs/subversion/some other source control system [...]
LOL. Have you ever tried to explain a source control system to a salesguy or a manager? Will you tell them to 'just run diff' to see changes? Don't be daft, man. Microsoft got it right.
I wonder when a resizable textarea will be implemented. I read somewhere that it was a feature request, but I can't find it. I use some web-based tools which use textareas, and sometimes, I'd like to enlarge those -- but not permanently.
Interesting ports on (x.x.x.x): (The 1599 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 22/tcp open ssh 6000/tcp open X11
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1 second
I've shut all RPC stuff off. You don't need that unless you're running NFS, which I don't. So, what's the use? You want me to run a firewall for one port? Which is not vulnerable since 3 years?
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>>Everyone needs a firewall, along with antivirus
>This rings all too true
That may be true for a Windows machine where controlling the number of open ports is difficult and where you have every piece of software calling home, but on my Linux laptop, I don't run a firewall. I just don't see the need. I've got ssh open and that's it. And X, from which I haven't heard anything since 4.0.
Someone broke into his car while on a business trip, left the CDs, DVDs, etc. and took the computer
I'm working at a consulting company, i.e. programmer-for-hire. This is a MAJOR problem. Thieves are on the lookout for your laptop and they are not easily scared. We've had several stories: people going for a cup of coffee - laptop gone. People coming home, unloading groceries, coming back for the laptop - gone.
We've even had people who walked to their car, opened the passenger's side and put their laptop in. Then walked to the other side of the car and go and sit behind the wheel, just to see a hand grabbing their laptop. Thugs actually waited on the carpark waiting for people to get into their cars!!! You have to be extremely paranoid nowadays.
If you can't figure out that knowing about and handling leap years is important in software that schedules, then maybe outsourcing your position is fitting...
That's a bit harsh. I thought I was among fellow geeks here. How do you know it was a programmer mistake? Maybe this company had some manager which was harassing the programmer to finish his work. I've had a few confrontations myself, and it's definitely not always to blame on the programmer.
* Can't generate nice graphical call graphs, a la ncc/codeviz.
Does anyone know of a similar tool for Java? I'm currently doing a project where I need to read/debug loads of Java code. This doesn't bother me, but I could use all the help I can get and after reading the Codeviz' homepage, I'm sure such a tool would be useful in a Java environment.
I do everything on Linux inside Gnome except for managing my finances. I keep a windows box with Quicken around for that.
If you'd like to do away with that Windows box but you need Quicken, you could use Crossover Office. Or maybe first try Wine since that's free, but I have had loads of more luck with Codeweavers' commercial version.
Casting in Java requires runtime checking... you are actually eliminating runtime overhead.
That's a pretty interesting question, actually. Which brings a slew of other questions: Will the virtual machine skip those checks when it sees that it's a 1.5-compiled class? Can it actually see how a class was compiled?
It's a pure compiler construct. So yes, if you have an older version, it will result in a runtime ClassCaseException. But at least, the older version will run; which wouldn't have to be the case if the binary class format would have changed...
What is great about this, is that this saves loads of code. Lots of explicit typecasts can be left out now, there is a very short-handed for-loop, you can import constants, etc. etc.
I played with the alpha and gave a presentatation about it at my employer. Lots of people were enthousiastic.
Offtopic, sorry, but: what is the font that's used in the bigger, red text "When you look at computer systems, they have this sort of yin-and-yang aspect."??
Then what has the poster of this thread been smoking? "If you want free VMWare check out Xen". I'm glad the company I work at is busy with a corporate license for VMWare. Because I haven't found ANYTHING open source which comes even remotely close to VMWare's offerings.
You might also want to take a look at the W3C draft on why these visual tests do not work for disabled people.
I have the perfect solution for this! Just use the alt="blah" attribute in the img tag when displaying the captcha! This will allow visually impaired people to enter the text of the captcha!
I don't really see how supporting Linux on their own machines distinguishes them from their competitors
I have the feeling they're trying to make their hardware stand out. They'll just say, "hey don't spend it on the OS, but spend it on the hardware". Linux makes the OS more or less irrelevant as was noted in another comment.
Oracle tries to do this from the software point of view. Oracle's strategy is basically cheap lintel boxen in a cluster. That way, the customer's budget allows for more Oracle licenses...
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To add to this, OpenOffice also has a 'track changes' feature, Menu -> Edit -> Changes.
LOL. Have you ever tried to explain a source control system to a salesguy or a manager? Will you tell them to 'just run diff' to see changes? Don't be daft, man. Microsoft got it right.
>This rings all too true
That may be true for a Windows machine where controlling the number of open ports is difficult and where you have every piece of software calling home, but on my Linux laptop, I don't run a firewall. I just don't see the need. I've got ssh open and that's it. And X, from which I haven't heard anything since 4.0.
No, but before I handed my old laptop back to the company, I wiped files, empty diskspace and swapspace with secure delete.
I'm working at a consulting company, i.e. programmer-for-hire. This is a MAJOR problem. Thieves are on the lookout for your laptop and they are not easily scared. We've had several stories: people going for a cup of coffee - laptop gone. People coming home, unloading groceries, coming back for the laptop - gone.
We've even had people who walked to their car, opened the passenger's side and put their laptop in. Then walked to the other side of the car and go and sit behind the wheel, just to see a hand grabbing their laptop. Thugs actually waited on the carpark waiting for people to get into their cars!!! You have to be extremely paranoid nowadays.
That's a bit harsh. I thought I was among fellow geeks here. How do you know it was a programmer mistake? Maybe this company had some manager which was harassing the programmer to finish his work. I've had a few confrontations myself, and it's definitely not always to blame on the programmer.
No, "Information wants to be tied up and spanked." -- Faulty Dreamer on kuro5hin
Does anyone know of a similar tool for Java? I'm currently doing a project where I need to read/debug loads of Java code. This doesn't bother me, but I could use all the help I can get and after reading the Codeviz' homepage, I'm sure such a tool would be useful in a Java environment.
If you'd like to do away with that Windows box but you need Quicken, you could use Crossover Office. Or maybe first try Wine since that's free, but I have had loads of more luck with Codeweavers' commercial version.
That's a pretty interesting question, actually. Which brings a slew of other questions: Will the virtual machine skip those checks when it sees that it's a 1.5-compiled class? Can it actually see how a class was compiled?
It's a pure compiler construct. So yes, if you have an older version, it will result in a runtime ClassCaseException. But at least, the older version will run; which wouldn't have to be the case if the binary class format would have changed...
Cerberus was taken :D
We're doing consultancy work mainly in Java (and PL/SQL, Oracle proprietary), but we expect customers to ask about C# in the near future.
I played with the alpha and gave a presentatation about it at my employer. Lots of people were enthousiastic.
Plug: java-1.5_new_features_en_v2.ppt
I can't find it in the stylesheets of the page.
I love Bitstream for opening up Vera, but in small as well as large font sizes, I think it looks crappy compared to TNR.
Is this relevant? Funny how you asking a question tells us a lot about you.
Then what has the poster of this thread been smoking? "If you want free VMWare check out Xen". I'm glad the company I work at is busy with a corporate license for VMWare. Because I haven't found ANYTHING open source which comes even remotely close to VMWare's offerings.
I like it. Others might not, but I do.
What would be interesting to know is whether it runs Windows 2000 reliably, but I can't find anything on that. Any hints?
I have the perfect solution for this! Just use the alt="blah" attribute in the img tag when displaying the captcha! This will allow visually impaired people to enter the text of the captcha!
Hah! I'm so smart!
Oh, wait...
That name sounds Klingon. Have you actually seen this guy or are you just assuming he's human?
I have the feeling they're trying to make their hardware stand out. They'll just say, "hey don't spend it on the OS, but spend it on the hardware". Linux makes the OS more or less irrelevant as was noted in another comment.
Oracle tries to do this from the software point of view. Oracle's strategy is basically cheap lintel boxen in a cluster. That way, the customer's budget allows for more Oracle licenses...