Sounds nice, but a little bit nostalgic to me.
Suppose you do mention that it was an awesome tool and that it's only nice at best these days, but I say, get rid of it. No need really. Pop up a window with the disk, disk image or whatever it might be and let the user decide what to do.
Works rather well on my mac, it even works really well for my dad now that he's gone over to Mac, and I assure you, he's not that technical.
Also, you misspelled licenses. I'm usually the guy that people point out grammatical errors to, rather than visa versa. But, still, if you are going to offer advice about a subject, it helps your creditability to actually spell it correctly. Or at least use a web browser with integrated spell checking. Again, the point of posting was not nitpicking, but clarifying as posts similar to your last one have led to quite a bit of misinformation about the GPL license.
Since we've already gone off the topic anyway and getting modded up for it, I might as well point out a couple of things in your post.
Licence can be spelt with a c. In fact it is spelt with a c in British English where I believe the language originated from.
But well done for being a bitch about it.
By the way, were you meant to say too instead of to in that sentence? Saying to doesn't make much sense to me
For being a guy that usually point out peoples grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, you really aren't that good writing yourself.
This was already mentioned in one of the links in the post.
And I sort of agree. But maybe they want the source code to see if Facebook actually associating a piece of data with multiple categories. I mean, maybe there are other ways of accomplishing what Facebook are doing, that makes them think that they are "associating a piece of data with multiple categories".
Still... don't get me wrong, I don't agree with such a patent.
Well, if the statements in the letter are true, then it really doesn't make sense that he would be managing the project on his own. I mean, what about the statement of the funds that he has promised to provide?
To me this seems rather suspicious to be quite honest.
IMHO, open software should be managed in an open way.
Especially not when, as you've mentioned, medical problems can occur at any time. This doesn't provide much security for users of the software.
I'm a Linux Systems Admin. I write php code quite often, I know several other script languages and I know the basics of CSS.
I managed to install Joomla quite easily, but I must say that once it was installed, it was really hard to use. Modules wouldn't install properly and simple things were really hard to accomplish, like being able to upload files etc.
It was also really hard to brand the page, we wanted our company look of the page. Took a good while before we got to something that only looked ok.
Maybe I'm being harsh as this was a few versions back. But still...
Well, that's a good point. However, it would be very useful for certain applications. Today already we have portability issues. It's not like we're sticking to just html and css as it is. Just think of Java for example.
is this a scare tactic for apple to push some payfor software and get people to buy it. or have apple started to loose confidence in their operating system? or even worse, do they know something we dont? are they expecting an attack?
Well, probably not something that specific, but they might have seen an increase in exploits and such for Mac OS X and would like to be on the safe side. Cover their asses legally.
And it seems pretty likely that they would be targeted more and more, as more and more Macs are being sold.
I very much doubt that there is one single "attacker" out there that they're worried about, or that they're actually think their OS is rubbish all of a sudden.
That is true.
I'm a bit disappointed that it has taken several years though. Most Linux distributions has been available in 64-bit versions for a few years.
We've been using CentOS 64-bit along with RedHat 64-bit on a number of systems here and if we wanted to have the Flash plug-in in Firefox on one of those, we either had to install a 32-bit version of Firefox. Alternatively use the wrapper, but that causes Firefox to crash sooner rather than later.
So it's a much welcomed change, but again, it took a while.
It's also been in the news recently about body odour could replace fingerprints. I couldn't find the article I saw recently on BBC, but I found this one instead.
It talks about how biometrics could change security with regards to the recent lost usb keys and such. From the article:
"A less tested form of biometrics is odour recognition, which is being studied to see if sensors can tell people apart by the way they smell.
Apparently, not even a strong curry can hide personal odour, but the tech required is expensive and has not been tested outside the labs."
To filter a string to make sure it's a valid ip address this regexp is quite useful. /^((25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[0-9])\.){3}(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[0-9])$/
And this one for mac addresses /^[0-9a-fA-F]{2}:[0-9a-fA-F]{2}:[0-9a-fA-F]{2}:[0-9a-fA-F]{2}:[0-9a-fA-F]{2}:[0-9a-fA-F]{2}$/
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Shut up, you're uid is higher than mine!
#!/bin/sh
echo "Lot of the time it's just quick and easy"
Sounds nice, but a little bit nostalgic to me.
Suppose you do mention that it was an awesome tool and that it's only nice at best these days, but I say, get rid of it. No need really. Pop up a window with the disk, disk image or whatever it might be and let the user decide what to do.
Works rather well on my mac, it even works really well for my dad now that he's gone over to Mac, and I assure you, he's not that technical.
Also, you misspelled licenses. I'm usually the guy that people point out grammatical errors to, rather than visa versa. But, still, if you are going to offer advice about a subject, it helps your creditability to actually spell it correctly. Or at least use a web browser with integrated spell checking. Again, the point of posting was not nitpicking, but clarifying as posts similar to your last one have led to quite a bit of misinformation about the GPL license.
Since we've already gone off the topic anyway and getting modded up for it, I might as well point out a couple of things in your post.
Licence can be spelt with a c. In fact it is spelt with a c in British English where I believe the language originated from.
But well done for being a bitch about it.
By the way, were you meant to say too instead of to in that sentence? Saying to doesn't make much sense to me
For being a guy that usually point out peoples grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, you really aren't that good writing yourself.
How slow is searching the internet going to be if you have to fill out stupid obscured word each time?!
This was already mentioned in one of the links in the post.
And I sort of agree. But maybe they want the source code to see if Facebook actually associating a piece of data with multiple categories. I mean, maybe there are other ways of accomplishing what Facebook are doing, that makes them think that they are "associating a piece of data with multiple categories".
Still... don't get me wrong, I don't agree with such a patent.
Since when did people start reading TFA here?
It would have been interesting to see Safari in this test as well.
From Tim Verhoeven. It explains the issues a little more in depth.
Read the post here.
Well, if the statements in the letter are true, then it really doesn't make sense that he would be managing the project on his own. I mean, what about the statement of the funds that he has promised to provide?
To me this seems rather suspicious to be quite honest.
IMHO, open software should be managed in an open way.
Especially not when, as you've mentioned, medical problems can occur at any time. This doesn't provide much security for users of the software.
I don't like YOUR sig. Please change it.
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Signatures are overrated.
Well, you may be right, it might not imply that, but it's still true that it cannot.
I too would like to point out that this is getting ridiculous.
Wii uses ffmpeg??!
If you're running Linux on it probably could.
WiiLi
I'm a Linux Systems Admin. I write php code quite often, I know several other script languages and I know the basics of CSS.
I managed to install Joomla quite easily, but I must say that once it was installed, it was really hard to use. Modules wouldn't install properly and simple things were really hard to accomplish, like being able to upload files etc.
It was also really hard to brand the page, we wanted our company look of the page. Took a good while before we got to something that only looked ok.
Maybe I'm being harsh as this was a few versions back. But still...
Well, that's a good point.
However, it would be very useful for certain applications. Today already we have portability issues. It's not like we're sticking to just html and css as it is. Just think of Java for example.
is this a scare tactic for apple to push some payfor software and get people to buy it. or have apple started to loose confidence in their operating system? or even worse, do they know something we dont? are they expecting an attack?
Well, probably not something that specific, but they might have seen an increase in exploits and such for Mac OS X and would like to be on the safe side. Cover their asses legally.
And it seems pretty likely that they would be targeted more and more, as more and more Macs are being sold.
I very much doubt that there is one single "attacker" out there that they're worried about, or that they're actually think their OS is rubbish all of a sudden.
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/
Working fine here 3.48 pm GMT.
I wonder if they allow chair-throwing in court these days.
If they do, I think Microsoft stands a pretty good chance.
That is true.
I'm a bit disappointed that it has taken several years though. Most Linux distributions has been available in 64-bit versions for a few years.
We've been using CentOS 64-bit along with RedHat 64-bit on a number of systems here and if we wanted to have the Flash plug-in in Firefox on one of those, we either had to install a 32-bit version of Firefox. Alternatively use the wrapper, but that causes Firefox to crash sooner rather than later.
So it's a much welcomed change, but again, it took a while.
It's also been in the news recently about body odour could replace fingerprints. I couldn't find the article I saw recently on BBC, but I found this one instead.
It talks about how biometrics could change security with regards to the recent lost usb keys and such.
From the article:
"A less tested form of biometrics is odour recognition, which is being studied to see if sensors can tell people apart by the way they smell.
Apparently, not even a strong curry can hide personal odour, but the tech required is expensive and has not been tested outside the labs."
Not only are you showing off with a lower member id than me, do you also have to come up with a cooler regexp than me?
To filter a string to make sure it's a valid ip address this regexp is quite useful.
/^((25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[0-9])\.){3}(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[0-9])$/
/^[0-9a-fA-F]{2}:[0-9a-fA-F]{2}:[0-9a-fA-F]{2}:[0-9a-fA-F]{2}:[0-9a-fA-F]{2}:[0-9a-fA-F]{2}$/
And this one for mac addresses
Well no, there were loads of bash tricks in the (Stupid) Useful Unix Tricks.
There, fixed that for me!
I've found this very useful whenever I'm put in front of emacs
C-x C-c
sudo apt-get -y purge emacs
vi