Mediahint seems to be a free proxy with a FF extension. Running a proxy costs money. I wonder how this mysterious extension earns the developer(s) the money needed to pay for the proxy. The extension doesn't have an on/off switch, and the web site is completely silent about how it works or what it does. Am I too paranoid?
banks and credit card companies don't understand the concept of information security
They do. But they are not concerned about things like password theft, because neither the bank nor their customers lose money that way.
So nobody cares about what you may perceive as bad security. As this PDF linked from this recent/. story shows, only third-party suckers lose money when a bank password is abused.
# create a list containing # the result of joining "undefined" with nothing ( $l=join("",) )
# in other words, a single-element list, the element being an empty string:
( "" )
=~ # regex s/ # substitute .*\n # anything followed by a new line / # gibbersih we don't care about, because that ("") doesn't have a newline, so it won't match
No need to decipher more. Just fire whoever wrote this, and get a Real Perl Programmer.
No one should ever need to type file:/// There are no bugs. You're doing it wrong
Yes, they are doing it wrong, by typing file:/// in lowercase, or not typing it at all. So the obvious question is: "how can I type it right for them?" If I include "File:///" in an email I send to a Mountain Lion user, will it crash his Mail.app? Or if someone quotes it in a reply here?
Indeed, Norton Commander was absolutely essential in DOS. And now, Total Commander is on all the Windows machines I touch, and is the Windows software I miss the most on my main Linux machine and on the many Macs I use. Midnight Commander is great, but not as featurefull as Total Commander. Krusader is what comes closest, but it is definitely not as rock solid and reliable as TC. On the Macs which are not mine, I sometimes install muCommander, but that is no match for TC.
The only word-processor I ever really liked. And the reason why I switched to Windows from DOS and my own customized Turbo Pascal editor.
I immediately felt at ease with Ami Pro. Everything felt intuitive for someone who had started using computers mainly to get rid of typewriters. Other word processors at the time seemed like just different typewriters. But Ami Pro almost forced you to use styles instead of manual formatting. And it made the use of styles very obvious and easy, mapping them to the function keys. At last, something smarter and more useful than a typewriter.
I'm using LibreOffice now, but I'm unhappy and still long for the elegant simplicity of Ami Pro.
No more, and not less. Astronomers started by being fascinated looking through telescopes. And while programming can be abstract logic and algorithms, the fun is that it actually makes computers do stuff. A computer scientist may not need a computer, but he certainly started to get interested in the field by having fun playing with one.
Anyway, what does he mean by "enterprise adoption"? Neither Javascript nor Perl were conceived "for the enterprise".
They were both conceived to make it easy to do simple things. One in web pages on the client, the other in anything with a CLI, even your toaster (if you have a decent toaster, which would have a CLI).
(Perl added to the "make simple things easy" the "and difficult things possible".)
I'm not sure what "for the enterprise" really means, but I'm pretty sure that if that is how I perceive a language, I just run away... (that may be why I never was interested in Java; it seems so boring, so "enterprisy". That may be unfair, but the perception that it is for IBM/Oracle/SomeBank employees in suits is hard to overcome)
And anyway, the comparison is weird because there is practically no overlap in functionality between Perl and Javascript. Nobody has ever wondered whether he should solve a problem with one or the other? They live on different continents.
There must be something I don't understand. For me the whole point of databases is precisely that they come with SQL to easily do even complex stuff with them.
How can the absence of the only useful feature be a "selling" point. No SQL? No thanks?...
GD is in fact so much "no MS Office", that I'm even surprised this story is trying to compare them. One could compare LibreOffice and Word. But Google Docs? That's just some sort of full screen blog editor in your browser. Or am I missing something?
I often work on various machines which are not mine, and started to use Google Docs to take notes which I can then access from anywhere. That would be a nice feature, but I can't even do the most basic word-processing thing: define my own paragraph styles for my needs!
This is really sad news. My driftnet/webcollage screen in my living room will get boring if it gets starved of all the neighbours' Facebook activity. https is killing all the fun!
Wasn't Amiga multitasking even before Windows? I mean for a comparable price. SGI Irix and other Unix machines of that time were not "Personal" computers if price is considered.
We finally switched out our last NAS that was running Samba. Too many small glitches. Not worth the hassle.
NAS boxes tend to be designed for home users. They are not a "real" server where you can easily install anything you need, and comfortably configure it. If you need stuf that is not in the web interface, it gets difficult. You cannot compare Samba on a NAS to a real server (be it a Linux or Windows server).
Besides, the whole comparison is irrelevant because the poster was talking about AD. So that means it is AD vs. Samba 4, which just released ther first "release candidate". That is not the same thing as Samba 3, which is a very reliable replacement for Windows NT server. I manage about a dozen servers with Samba 3 for various small businesses, and it works very well.
No, keep whatever you like on your devices. But obviously, don't if it's a device you don't understand and cannot manage yourself.
I suppose the employee has been fired and will be sentenced to at least a hefty fine, and that's good. Such behaviour is unacceptable.
But the woman who puts naked pictures of herself on a phone which she doen't understand is stupid, and I hope it serves as a lesson to others. If you use technology, understand what you are doing. If you can't be bothered to learn the basics of something new, don't use it.
Is this serious? Is someone on/. really wondering if it is better to let the police and the judiciary sytem decide if someone committed a crime and who it was, or just let anonymous (!) people do justice on their own?
Are people really nostalgic of the good old days of lynching etc.?
Then make it a strictly state-controlled business, where legal authority releases prostitution authorizations, regularly check on the health of the operators, etc.
OMG, you want to turn the US into Europe? You must be communist.
(I learned something on/. today. I really didn't know prostitution was illegal in the US.)
I have always been surprised that people accept that services like hotmail and many others take the liberty to add advertisements on outgoing mails, without the senders knowledge. When you send a mail from a hotmail (or gmx etc) account, you actually don't know the exact content of the mail you are sending. The recipient will be spammed with an ad, which you have never seen and of course, not explicitly allowed.
I find this incredibly rude and totally inacceptable.
Google, on the other hand, sends your mails out as you have written them, and doesn't add anything to them. As a Gmail user, you get ads in the mail interface, but you don't spam your correspondents. I consider this perfectly acceptable. If I don't like it, I don't use gmail. And Google's robots read my mail to traget the ads. They were also the first to aknowledge this, and state it clearly when I signed up for a gmail account. If you open a hotmail account, do you clearly see that they will add spam to all your outgoing email? Has anyone considered suing them?
(And of course, ther is the milder version of the iPhone, preconfigured to add the ridiculous "Sent from my iPhone" to outgoing mails. Which new users don't know about. And don't know how to turn off. (it's a pre-configured signature)).
Install instructions send you to an Adobe web page which only mentions Windows and Mac. But it turned out that in Ubuntu 12.04, double-clicking the.ttf opens it in a font viewer with handy "Install" button.
Comparing the "Regular" version to DejaVu Sans Mono, they look very similar, except the the DejaVu is a bit "fatter". The semi-bold version is bolder than the plain DejaVu, but also seems smaller.
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Mediahint seems to be a free proxy with a FF extension. Running a proxy costs money. I wonder how this mysterious extension earns the developer(s) the money needed to pay for the proxy. The extension doesn't have an on/off switch, and the web site is completely silent about how it works or what it does. Am I too paranoid?
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/27/2051209/ship-anchor-damages-african-undersea-cables
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/02/01/1912220/third-undersea-cable-cut
banks and credit card companies don't understand the concept of information security
They do. But they are not concerned about things like password theft, because neither the bank nor their customers lose money that way.
So nobody cares about what you may perceive as bad security. As this PDF linked from this recent /. story shows, only third-party suckers lose money when a bank password is abused.
<quote>I've always wanted the ability to painlessly send someone money</quote>
Please do! Here is my IBAN number: CH14 0025 5255 F665 2263 0
Thanks.
Nonsense!
:
.*\n # anything followed by a new line
/
# create a list containing
# the result of joining "undefined" with nothing
(
$l=join("",)
)
# in other words, a single-element list, the element being an empty string
( "" )
=~ # regex
s/ # substitute
# gibbersih we don't care about, because that ("") doesn't have a newline, so it won't match
No need to decipher more. Just fire whoever wrote this, and get a Real Perl Programmer.
I guess he must have seen Nanni Moretti's "Habemus Papam" ...
No one should ever need to type file:///
There are no bugs. You're doing it wrong
Yes, they are doing it wrong, by typing file:/// in lowercase, or not typing it at all. So the obvious question is: "how can I type it right for them?" If I include "File:///" in an email I send to a Mountain Lion user, will it crash his Mail.app? Or if someone quotes it in a reply here?
That could become a cool little meme.
Indeed, Norton Commander was absolutely essential in DOS. And now, Total Commander is on all the Windows machines I touch, and is the Windows software I miss the most on my main Linux machine and on the many Macs I use. Midnight Commander is great, but not as featurefull as Total Commander. Krusader is what comes closest, but it is definitely not as rock solid and reliable as TC. On the Macs which are not mine, I sometimes install muCommander, but that is no match for TC.
The only word-processor I ever really liked. And the reason why I switched to Windows from DOS and my own customized Turbo Pascal editor.
I immediately felt at ease with Ami Pro. Everything felt intuitive for someone who had started using computers mainly to get rid of typewriters. Other word processors at the time seemed like just different typewriters. But Ami Pro almost forced you to use styles instead of manual formatting. And it made the use of styles very obvious and easy, mapping them to the function keys. At last, something smarter and more useful than a typewriter.
I'm using LibreOffice now, but I'm unhappy and still long for the elegant simplicity of Ami Pro.
No more, and not less. Astronomers started by being fascinated looking through telescopes.
And while programming can be abstract logic and algorithms, the fun is that it actually makes computers do stuff. A computer scientist may not need a computer, but he certainly started to get interested in the field by having fun playing with one.
Anyway, what does he mean by "enterprise adoption"? Neither Javascript nor Perl were conceived "for the enterprise".
They were both conceived to make it easy to do simple things. One in web pages on the client, the other in anything with a CLI, even your toaster (if you have a decent toaster, which would have a CLI).
(Perl added to the "make simple things easy" the "and difficult things possible".)
I'm not sure what "for the enterprise" really means, but I'm pretty sure that if that is how I perceive a language, I just run away... (that may be why I never was interested in Java; it seems so boring, so "enterprisy". That may be unfair, but the perception that it is for IBM/Oracle/SomeBank employees in suits is hard to overcome)
And anyway, the comparison is weird because there is practically no overlap in functionality between Perl and Javascript. Nobody has ever wondered whether he should solve a problem with one or the other? They live on different continents.
There must be something I don't understand. For me the whole point of databases is precisely that they come with SQL to easily do even complex stuff with them.
How can the absence of the only useful feature be a "selling" point. No SQL? No thanks?...
It has helped me many times when arguing about the best way to do something.
Someone will confidently say
"we should do it this way, because that's how they do it in the US",
and I can just reply
"You mean those people who measure distances in inches and feet?".
I love your imperial system.
GD is in fact so much "no MS Office", that I'm even surprised this story is trying to compare them. One could compare LibreOffice and Word. But Google Docs? That's just some sort of full screen blog editor in your browser. Or am I missing something?
I often work on various machines which are not mine, and started to use Google Docs to take notes which I can then access from anywhere. That would be a nice feature, but I can't even do the most basic word-processing thing: define my own paragraph styles for my needs!
many of the world's money traders self identify as the "masters of the universe." Solution?
I would guess that 90% of these people became psychopaths because of cocaine abuse. A simple urine test would be much cheaper, and quite efficient...
Your bank should not let Visual Basic "programmers" touch Perl code.
This is really sad news. My driftnet/webcollage screen in my living room will get boring if it gets starved of all the neighbours' Facebook activity. https is killing all the fun!
Wasn't Amiga multitasking even before Windows? I mean for a comparable price. SGI Irix and other Unix machines of that time were not "Personal" computers if price is considered.
We finally switched out our last NAS that was running Samba. Too many small glitches. Not worth the hassle.
NAS boxes tend to be designed for home users. They are not a "real" server where you can easily install anything you need, and comfortably configure it. If you need stuf that is not in the web interface, it gets difficult. You cannot compare Samba on a NAS to a real server (be it a Linux or Windows server).
Besides, the whole comparison is irrelevant because the poster was talking about AD. So that means it is AD vs. Samba 4, which just released ther first "release candidate". That is not the same thing as Samba 3, which is a very reliable replacement for Windows NT server. I manage about a dozen servers with Samba 3 for various small businesses, and it works very well.
don't keep nude pics of yourself on your computer
No, keep whatever you like on your devices. But obviously, don't if it's a device you don't understand and cannot manage yourself.
I suppose the employee has been fired and will be sentenced to at least a hefty fine, and that's good. Such behaviour is unacceptable.
But the woman who puts naked pictures of herself on a phone which she doen't understand is stupid, and I hope it serves as a lesson to others. If you use technology, understand what you are doing. If you can't be bothered to learn the basics of something new, don't use it.
Is this serious? Is someone on /. really wondering if it is better to let the police and the judiciary sytem decide if someone committed a crime and who it was, or just let anonymous (!) people do justice on their own?
Are people really nostalgic of the good old days of lynching etc.?
Then make it a strictly state-controlled business, where legal authority releases prostitution authorizations, regularly check on the health of the operators, etc.
OMG, you want to turn the US into Europe? You must be communist.
(I learned something on /. today. I really didn't know prostitution was illegal in the US.)
I have always been surprised that people accept that services like hotmail and many others take the liberty to add advertisements on outgoing mails, without the senders knowledge. When you send a mail from a hotmail (or gmx etc) account, you actually don't know the exact content of the mail you are sending. The recipient will be spammed with an ad, which you have never seen and of course, not explicitly allowed.
I find this incredibly rude and totally inacceptable.
Google, on the other hand, sends your mails out as you have written them, and doesn't add anything to them. As a Gmail user, you get ads in the mail interface, but you don't spam your correspondents. I consider this perfectly acceptable. If I don't like it, I don't use gmail. And Google's robots read my mail to traget the ads. They were also the first to aknowledge this, and state it clearly when I signed up for a gmail account. If you open a hotmail account, do you clearly see that they will add spam to all your outgoing email? Has anyone considered suing them?
(And of course, ther is the milder version of the iPhone, preconfigured to add the ridiculous "Sent from my iPhone" to outgoing mails. Which new users don't know about. And don't know how to turn off. (it's a pre-configured signature)).
Install instructions send you to an Adobe web page which only mentions Windows and Mac. But it turned out that in Ubuntu 12.04, double-clicking the .ttf opens it in a font viewer with handy "Install" button.
Comparing the "Regular" version to DejaVu Sans Mono, they look very similar, except the the DejaVu is a bit "fatter".
The semi-bold version is bolder than the plain DejaVu, but also seems smaller.
For the lazy, this is the .zip content:
$ ls -Ago src/SourceCodePro_FontsOnly-1.009/
total 1132
-rwxr-xr-x 1 4622 Sep 21 02:12 LICENSE.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 4402 Sep 21 02:12 ReadMe.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 79912 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-Black.otf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 103764 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-Black.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 83792 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-Bold.otf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 103512 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-Bold.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 76340 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-ExtraLight.otf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 104760 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-ExtraLight.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 79940 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-Light.otf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 104408 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-Light.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 10738 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodeProReadMe.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 81384 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-Regular.otf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 103820 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 81080 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-Semibold.otf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 103500 Sep 21 02:12 SourceCodePro-Semibold.ttf
If you feel a size increase of 2 inches is worth all these drawbacks, I have a few emails which I could forward to you :-)