Not being a troll, but I figured people were dropping off. I used FB for several years, then finally got tired of hearing how fantastic everyone was and how I should stop the abuse of toasters by signing yet another petition. Besides my two teenagers have zero interest in FB. For them it is all about snapchat, oovoo and a little bit of Twitter.
I'm surprised they have influence enough to make this an issue.
I have a 1 (Level II basic) and a CoCo. In all honesty, I bought the CoCo at a garage sale for $1.00 about ten years ago, so I've only used it a few times.
Nah, Linux isn't "better" than Windows. It just sucks less.
I still have a laptop running Crunchbang (http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2012/crunchbang.jpg) at home to be used as a gateway. I also have a USB key with Knoppix (http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2012/knoppix_desktop.png). However, most things just don't work well with Linux, and booting a VM isn't that much fun.
I did my best to integrate into work, but it just got too much. Here's the presentataion I did at the southern california linux expo a few years back... http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2010/2010_SCALE_Presentation.odp
I'm still not happy about his whole, "Qt isn't OSS so I'm writing GNOME to compete with KDE" move back in the late '90s. Though I appreciate Ximian, I fail to see why he's even relevant these days.
I was a HUGE Linux fanboi in the late '90s through about 2010. I agree with him, however, that Linux just doesn't work as a day-to-day end-user platform anymore. As it is, I'm mostly using my Nexus tablet and Galaxy phone for tasks, and then resort to Wintendo when I need.
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Valid point!
My aunt was one of those layoffs. She spent 25 years with IBM (in finance) and "retired" early at 55. They gave her the choice of take some early retirement package or be laid off outright.
Of course, she's happy living in northern Washington, well away from San Jose.
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It is amazing to me that - back when I graduated university in '92 - people were foretelling the death knoll for IBM. Next thing I know, I'm working on programming ASP.NET using JCL on zSeries machines fifteen years later.
Now, we're using Rational and Eclipse to manage Websphere projects.
Keep in mind when old-timers like me were in college, CS was about determining how to best utilize the 640 KB of memory you had available. You needed to understand more math than now.
OTOH, I actually think that multiple languages are a must for programmers these days. I - for one - speak/write German and Spanish. I have seven programmers with CS degrees and an additional six analysts with CIS degrees working for me.
Okay, so basically it sounds like the programmers did a poor job of implementing state.
Whenever I've done an application (which I don't anymore being a PHB) I always forced closed a session on either logout or browser disconnect. (You never know when that BSOD might hit for those using windows.)
Ah, well, I guess my 75-year-old father-in-law is right in that he refuses to do online banking and insists on going into the branch for every single transaction.:P
AFAIK, session hijacking has been an issue since - well - since Al Gore invented the intraweb.
No matter what browser you're using - unless it is Lynx - you probably can be involved in a session hijack issue. UNLESS you forcibly close that session by closing your browser.
I saw a post about using Wintendo. I don't think that Windows or Linux or OSX are any more or less vunerable. Just the fact that people don't forcibly close sessions.
I actually have a few of the Microsoft Tablet PC (running XP) items that was mentioned in the 2001 Gates speech. Actually - for wintendo boxes - they're quite nice. I was hoping tablets would catch on sooner rahter than later. As it is I use my ARM/Android device almost as often as my laptop or my desktops.
Still, I can't do development on the Android unit.... yet.
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Not being a troll, but I figured people were dropping off. I used FB for several years, then finally got tired of hearing how fantastic everyone was and how I should stop the abuse of toasters by signing yet another petition. Besides my two teenagers have zero interest in FB. For them it is all about snapchat, oovoo and a little bit of Twitter.
I'm surprised they have influence enough to make this an issue.
I know that my password - ********** - is very strong. I use it on all sites and even brute force hasn't worked yet. So, nyah, to the password meters.
I have a 1 (Level II basic) and a CoCo. In all honesty, I bought the CoCo at a garage sale for $1.00 about ten years ago, so I've only used it a few times.
I've got my TRS-80 on my desk. Yeah, the C64 has better graphics, but I learned BASIC on this puppy...
http://perfectreign.com/stuff/trs80_level1_4kb-sm.jpg
I've heard they're also discontinuing support for Windows XP. wonder if that means MS is abandoning windows....
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Nah, Linux isn't "better" than Windows. It just sucks less.
I still have a laptop running Crunchbang (http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2012/crunchbang.jpg) at home to be used as a gateway. I also have a USB key with Knoppix (http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2012/knoppix_desktop.png). However, most things just don't work well with Linux, and booting a VM isn't that much fun.
I did my best to integrate into work, but it just got too much. Here's the presentataion I did at the southern california linux expo a few years back... http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2010/2010_SCALE_Presentation.odp
I'm still not happy about his whole, "Qt isn't OSS so I'm writing GNOME to compete with KDE" move back in the late '90s. Though I appreciate Ximian, I fail to see why he's even relevant these days.
I was a HUGE Linux fanboi in the late '90s through about 2010. I agree with him, however, that Linux just doesn't work as a day-to-day end-user platform anymore. As it is, I'm mostly using my Nexus tablet and Galaxy phone for tasks, and then resort to Wintendo when I need.
Valid point!
My aunt was one of those layoffs. She spent 25 years with IBM (in finance) and "retired" early at 55. They gave her the choice of take some early retirement package or be laid off outright.
Of course, she's happy living in northern Washington, well away from San Jose.
It is amazing to me that - back when I graduated university in '92 - people were foretelling the death knoll for IBM. Next thing I know, I'm working on programming ASP.NET using JCL on zSeries machines fifteen years later.
Now, we're using Rational and Eclipse to manage Websphere projects.
Go figure.
LOL!
what is jackson thinking? is he going to have a shark swim at the screen?
oh, wait - maybe a large flying dragon fly at the screen....
Very similar process, but I had in a previous live simply booted to x86 compatibility mode - 6 MHz - and Windows 2000 took about an hour to boot.
I got a new machine in a few hours.
LIKE
...however they use logic a great deal.
Keep in mind when old-timers like me were in college, CS was about determining how to best utilize the 640 KB of memory you had available. You needed to understand more math than now.
OTOH, I actually think that multiple languages are a must for programmers these days. I - for one - speak/write German and Spanish. I have seven programmers with CS degrees and an additional six analysts with CIS degrees working for me.
http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am1.html
Remember, the document was written to protect the citizens - us - against any tyranny of the Government.
HTH!
...as long a there were no laws broken in the process of gleaning or divulging the information.
OIC
:P
Okay, so basically it sounds like the programmers did a poor job of implementing state.
Whenever I've done an application (which I don't anymore being a PHB) I always forced closed a session on either logout or browser disconnect. (You never know when that BSOD might hit for those using windows.)
Ah, well, I guess my 75-year-old father-in-law is right in that he refuses to do online banking and insists on going into the branch for every single transaction.
AFAIK, session hijacking has been an issue since - well - since Al Gore invented the intraweb.
No matter what browser you're using - unless it is Lynx - you probably can be involved in a session hijack issue. UNLESS you forcibly close that session by closing your browser.
I saw a post about using Wintendo. I don't think that Windows or Linux or OSX are any more or less vunerable. Just the fact that people don't forcibly close sessions.
Now, where did I put that copy of Firesheep?
I'm thinking this through and thinking of my android-based device. For anything to gain access like this wouldn't the user need to be root?
Or can the app simply request permission?
(Disclaimer: I'm root and have cyanogen on my phone.)
LOL!
I remember that concept well.
I recall seeing PowerPC units at Comdex out-peforming Intel Pentium units on Adobe Photoshop.
I actually have a few of the Microsoft Tablet PC (running XP) items that was mentioned in the 2001 Gates speech. Actually - for wintendo boxes - they're quite nice. I was hoping tablets would catch on sooner rahter than later.
As it is I use my ARM/Android device almost as often as my laptop or my desktops.
Still, I can't do development on the Android unit.... yet.
OIC.
:)
I do use AV all the time. I have Ardour, Avidmux, and Tovid.
What is "AV" software?
j/k
ROTFL!
Um, what law was made?
If they give (or deny) funding, there's no law created, just money possibly exchanged.