Hmmm... I use Linux on the desktop and let me show you what issues I've had:
1) WPA support sucks balls -> have to use wpa_supplicant, doesn't seem to compile on latest Kernel. Had to switch my router back to WEP.
2) Printer support blows chunks, especially over SMB. True it's probably Canon's fault. I don't care - my printer doesn't work. Especially if I want to print a 6 colour photo.
3) Scanner support. yes, Sane is kinda there and kinda works. I can't use most of my scanner's features without the true manufacturer's drivers. Yes, it again is a Canon.
Well that's two peripherals, and a really critical piece of networking that's goofy.
Linux on the desktop isn't ready for the end user yet. I'm sure a zealot will come along and mod me down anyway for saying so too.
If you honestly consider what websites you visit to be some kind of major secret, then by all means, don't use these sort of extensions.
That's the argument for installing spyware too - seeing as though they profit by selling people's surfing behaviour...
As for pr0n, I love usenet, but every once in a while I come across a pic I'd rather not see... Gots to have a strong stomach for strange pr0n in usenet...
AFAIK, Macromedia was working on a Linux flavour of their creative suite -> DW, FW, Flash, et all...
Not certain where it stands now since the adobe merger...
I know Fireworks != Photoshop, but it's pretty decent and is a good start. If sales are good, it'll probably demonstrated to Adobe whether they should port for linux or not...
It basically checks websites you visit against its database and tells you if they are considered dangerous or what have you.
So it reports my surfing to google's database? Thanks but no thanks. I've never fallen pray to phishing attacks, and don't want a feature like that logging all the pr0n sites I visit. Wait, the only pr0n site I need is google images now anyway haha!
Why should we trust google? They are looking out for their shareholder, not the end user.
? Why didn't RIM just tell NTP to go fuck themselves and wait for the patent office to finish.
Because the judge in the last ruling was really pissed off and stated the case never should have made it to the courts, and that RIM should have settled with NTP.
For RIM to settle for so much, it means that they figured they'd lose even more. The judge basically tore them a new a55hol3
"Get away with this"?!?! That's absurd. AOL owns the servers. If AOL wanted to configure their servers to only accept mail from MSN that would be their right... Or deny e-mail from China, or declare all e-mail from hotmail as spam, or turn them off all together and stop providing e-mail. AOL is not obligated (morally or legally) to do ANYTHING with their mail servers.
Thing is, AOL needs to be careful they don't break their common carrier status. An ISP that doesn't filter is considered a common carrier. The moment AOL starts filtering, they run the risk of crossing the line to content provider. Not saying this is necessarily going to happen, but you get my point.
At one point do they jeopardize their common carrier status?
Off topic, but there's a company called Adzilla that provides a service for ISP's to filter content, replacing banner ads with different, targeted banner ads. They've targeted tonnes of smaller dial-up ISP's, and have made an entire business model out of content filtering.
I too wonder about how much content filtering jeapordizes common carrier status. It has yet to be tested AFAIK.
If only I was a lawyer, I'd take this knowledge and file some lawsuits just for shits and giggles.
Problem is the more spam you stop, the higher chance you have of getting false positives.
I've seen many systems stop a large percentage of spam that also have a low rate of false positives. However a low rate is not good enough. One false positive is enough for me to worry about missing an important email.
If you think AJAX, rendering 10,000 widgets will be any more efficient...
Seriously, you'll watch your memory consumption skyrocket while it attempts to lay out your pages... AJAX or not... 10,000 widgets is still 10,000 widgets. No platform should be stretched to that.
I do that by going to their concerts instead. They get a helluva lot more money from the live shows than off their CD sales... And at least the CRA doesn't get a cut...
I can't see Google successfully taking a chunk of eBay's market share. This is one place where a natural monopoly exists. I seel stuff on eBay because it's maximum exposure.
I might buy off another auction site if the prices are lower, that's about it. I'm more likely to find what I want on eBay than anywhere else.
Yeah, but he's kind of wrong. First of all, all hammers serve one basic function - to hit stuff with it. From a sledge hammer, down to a dental hammer, they are all designed to hit.
The question is how hard you want to hit and how much control you want to have, but they all hit. If you want something that you can strike an object with, any hammer will do.
It's important to educate yourself on all the hammers in the marketplace and use the right tool for the right task. However if all you want to do is hit something, and don't really give a crap how, then any hammer will do - buy the cheepest one that looks like it's the easiest to swing.
The nice thing that Rails does though is give you oodles of great functions for presenting your views. You don't need to worry about moving your application from a subfolder of a site to its own domain - the functions within the views take care of all of that.
Granted though the syntax is ugly, and you still end up with spaghetti code. I can't stand embedded ruby. I agree with you - something like XSL is the way to go... Perhaps some RoR devs are reading this...
ColdFusion, yup thats right. You can have your struts and scaffold, my website is power by cold fusion.
ColdFusion, by itself isn't a framework. It's a language. A framework for coldfusion is Fusebox
Fusebox somewhat introduces the concept of MVC to Coldfusion. A framework is supposed to reduce code duplication, and make stuff like CRUD a lot easier.
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Hmmm... I use Linux on the desktop and let me show you what issues I've had:
1) WPA support sucks balls -> have to use wpa_supplicant, doesn't seem to compile on latest Kernel. Had to switch my router back to WEP.
2) Printer support blows chunks, especially over SMB. True it's probably Canon's fault. I don't care - my printer doesn't work. Especially if I want to print a 6 colour photo.
3) Scanner support. yes, Sane is kinda there and kinda works. I can't use most of my scanner's features without the true manufacturer's drivers. Yes, it again is a Canon.
Well that's two peripherals, and a really critical piece of networking that's goofy.
Linux on the desktop isn't ready for the end user yet. I'm sure a zealot will come along and mod me down anyway for saying so too.
If you honestly consider what websites you visit to be some kind of major secret, then by all means, don't use these sort of extensions.
That's the argument for installing spyware too - seeing as though they profit by selling people's surfing behaviour...
As for pr0n, I love usenet, but every once in a while I come across a pic I'd rather not see... Gots to have a strong stomach for strange pr0n in usenet...
=D
AFAIK, Macromedia was working on a Linux flavour of their creative suite -> DW, FW, Flash, et all...
Not certain where it stands now since the adobe merger...
I know Fireworks != Photoshop, but it's pretty decent and is a good start. If sales are good, it'll probably demonstrated to Adobe whether they should port for linux or not...
It basically checks websites you visit against its database and tells you if they are considered dangerous or what have you.
So it reports my surfing to google's database? Thanks but no thanks. I've never fallen pray to phishing attacks, and don't want a feature like that logging all the pr0n sites I visit. Wait, the only pr0n site I need is google images now anyway haha!
Why should we trust google? They are looking out for their shareholder, not the end user.
And the same users succeptable to Phishing are the ones who actually thought those 419 scam letters in snail mail were real too.
All I'm saying is that email is just a new delivery vehicle for the same tired old scam, rehashed for the 21st century.
The best way to prevent these attacks is to make it harder for the scammers to win.
That's why I enjoy Ruby. You don't have to use {...} -> you can use do ... end instead. Or you can use {...} -> doesn't make much difference really...
Probably one of the most beautiful languages out there IMO.
I notice a bigger difference when using my 22" CRT... Damn monitor heats the whole top floor of my house haha!
? Why didn't RIM just tell NTP to go fuck themselves and wait for the patent office to finish.
Because the judge in the last ruling was really pissed off and stated the case never should have made it to the courts, and that RIM should have settled with NTP.
For RIM to settle for so much, it means that they figured they'd lose even more. The judge basically tore them a new a55hol3
"Get away with this"?!?! That's absurd. AOL owns the servers. If AOL wanted to configure their servers to only accept mail from MSN that would be their right... Or deny e-mail from China, or declare all e-mail from hotmail as spam, or turn them off all together and stop providing e-mail. AOL is not obligated (morally or legally) to do ANYTHING with their mail servers.
Thing is, AOL needs to be careful they don't break their common carrier status. An ISP that doesn't filter is considered a common carrier. The moment AOL starts filtering, they run the risk of crossing the line to content provider. Not saying this is necessarily going to happen, but you get my point.
I think he hears the voices of a million CEOs murmuring "if AOL can do it..."
How many AOL users will be told to switch to gmail || yahoo || hotmail, etc...
It'll be the "I keep emailing person 'x' and they don't respond" conversation. Oh, person 'x' has to pay to email me, so I should switch to gmail?
At one point do they jeopardize their common carrier status?
Off topic, but there's a company called Adzilla that provides a service for ISP's to filter content, replacing banner ads with different, targeted banner ads. They've targeted tonnes of smaller dial-up ISP's, and have made an entire business model out of content filtering.
I too wonder about how much content filtering jeapordizes common carrier status. It has yet to be tested AFAIK.
If only I was a lawyer, I'd take this knowledge and file some lawsuits just for shits and giggles.
Meh, it'll just make AOHell users sign up for gmail/hotmail/yahoo/whatever accounts instead.
No one wants to pay for something when they can have it for free.
Problem is the more spam you stop, the higher chance you have of getting false positives.
I've seen many systems stop a large percentage of spam that also have a low rate of false positives. However a low rate is not good enough. One false positive is enough for me to worry about missing an important email.
local.live.com shows some promise...
I love the zoom feature - I find it a lot less kludgy feeling than Google maps.
Cool how it works with the scroll mouse...
I've tried Google Maps looking at where I live. I prefer http://www.zillow.com/ which is tens of times better in resolution.
Real useful if you're going outside of Canada eh?
If you think AJAX, rendering 10,000 widgets will be any more efficient...
Seriously, you'll watch your memory consumption skyrocket while it attempts to lay out your pages... AJAX or not... 10,000 widgets is still 10,000 widgets. No platform should be stretched to that.
I'll support bands I like directly though
I do that by going to their concerts instead. They get a helluva lot more money from the live shows than off their CD sales... And at least the CRA doesn't get a cut...
I can't see Google successfully taking a chunk of eBay's market share. This is one place where a natural monopoly exists. I seel stuff on eBay because it's maximum exposure.
I might buy off another auction site if the prices are lower, that's about it. I'm more likely to find what I want on eBay than anywhere else.
And at what point do judges deal out barretry charges? Isn't it against the law to sue for the sake of suing?
Yeah, but he's kind of wrong. First of all, all hammers serve one basic function - to hit stuff with it. From a sledge hammer, down to a dental hammer, they are all designed to hit.
The question is how hard you want to hit and how much control you want to have, but they all hit. If you want something that you can strike an object with, any hammer will do.
It's important to educate yourself on all the hammers in the marketplace and use the right tool for the right task. However if all you want to do is hit something, and don't really give a crap how, then any hammer will do - buy the cheepest one that looks like it's the easiest to swing.
His analogy is flawed, and kinda stupid really.
The nice thing that Rails does though is give you oodles of great functions for presenting your views. You don't need to worry about moving your application from a subfolder of a site to its own domain - the functions within the views take care of all of that.
Granted though the syntax is ugly, and you still end up with spaghetti code. I can't stand embedded ruby. I agree with you - something like XSL is the way to go... Perhaps some RoR devs are reading this...
ColdFusion, yup thats right. You can have your struts and scaffold, my website is power by cold fusion.
ColdFusion, by itself isn't a framework. It's a language. A framework for coldfusion is Fusebox
Fusebox somewhat introduces the concept of MVC to Coldfusion. A framework is supposed to reduce code duplication, and make stuff like CRUD a lot easier.
What about these searches:
Fedora
America's Army
OpenSuSE
Knoppix
Nay, they can proove that this has legitimate uses too. The RIAA is at it again - using Barretry to their advantage.
Some ACLU group needs to sue the RIAA for barretry.
Not only that, but what happens when you lose the laser in your DVD player and have to replace it? Do you lose all your movies too?
Thanks, but I'll stick with plain old DVD's - the quality is honestly good enough for me...
Hell, Divx is good enough for me... Movies coverted from MPEG-4 to DVD onto my 51" TV look just fine thanks.
I thought Wa-Bang would be spelled wa#
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