Subject says it all really, but 1.5 contains some substantial additions to the language, some much needed library additions, and in general is full of goodies:
Pick a proper name. Does it sound dumb as a product name ? Yep.
Repeat as required.
So yes, all the good ones are chosen. The formula allows you to pick something more or less intelligible without handing your soul and wallet to the rebranding dickheads (Centrica anyone ?).
It's just getting a little stale that's all... we need a new formula.
Although now I think about it, maybe Susan isn't such a bad name for a product. Hmm...
Given that the annual income of HP is on the order of $87 billion, she only has to carry out changes that improve that figure by 0.1% to justify her income.
The market capitalization is even higher of course, and it's the shareholders she has to justify herself to, not you, me, or the employees.
Actually, I had three computers with tape drives. One was the ZX81 with an elderly desk tape recorder. The ZX81 had to switch off the screen routine while it was handling the mo/dem to tape. I'm not making this up.
Then there was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. By the time I got this, I had some awful MIDI HiFi system that was about 50 times the size of the computer, but it did have good enough fidelity to retrieve iffy pirate copies of Elite every other attempt or so. I had a genuine purchased copy, mind, but that only loaded once a fortnight...
And finally, there was the Wang 2200 system that my dad did work on. The tape drive was built into the terminal next to the nice green screen and above a keyboard that used a solenoid to produce that authentic CLUNK action.
I love disks so much I could cry.
Your password has been reset to "Duh"
on
Real Security?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I did some work for an internationally renowned company. Their IT department was (with good reason) obsessive about security.
To get your login, a representative of the IT department gave you a sealed envelope in person. Your manager was not allowed to receive it on your behalf under any circumstances.
To reset your password to the current day of the week, however, all you had to do was ring the helpdesk and say "I've forgotten my password, and my name is..."
There's resistence to changing this approach 'cos the complex password requirement and the enforced 30 day password expiration result in multiple daily requests for this.
It's popular because it was first to market. It was first to market because it was cheap. It was cheap because it made a load of design compromises. It made a load of design compromises so it's a bitch to program.
I purchased Office X for OSX, and it comes with MSN Messenger. I could download the "free" version, but since I access the internet over GPRS on my mobile phone that actually works out considerably less than "free" for me.
After reading this story about Russell Lewis's (Verisign GM) memo to staff, I registered "bookstre.com" and pointed it to Google via the Easily.co.uk redirector.
Now, until the DNS entry propagated, and in the 15 minute window before the non-existant domain timed out, I was still seeing the SiteFinder "domain". Obviously it's a contrived example, but I think it illustrates an important point:
I paid good money for this domain Who said Verisign could use it ?
Legitimate domain registrations are still going to suffer from this decision, so I suspect this would be a legitimate set of grounds for a class action against Verisign.
Presumably there's something similar to the Sony Ericsson P800 available in the US.
That and a bit of custom software should do the trick. It'll be pricey to get someone else to write it, but if you're able, all the dev software you need is freely available.
If some of your customer's stores are out of mobile range, fallback to fax.
As well as being the creator of Minix (which in some senses can be considered the natural predecessor of Linux) he has written some of the best introductory computer science books around.
Anyone who might feel inclined to disregard him because of that old spat with Linus should take a look at this entry in his FAQ:
What do you think of Linux?
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Linus for producing it. Before there was Linux there was MINIX, which had a 40,000-person newsgroup, most of whom were sending me email every day. I was going crazy with the endless stream of new features people were sending me. I kept refusing them all because I wanted to keep MINIX small enough for my students to understand in one semester. My consistent refusal to add all these new features is what inspired Linus to write Linux. Both of us are now happy with the results. The only person who is perhaps not so happy is Bill Gates. I think this is a good thing.
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And at a masterstroke, Ironica gifts the community a new motto for Linux:
"Because it's not a friggin' squirrel."
Subject says it all really, but 1.5 contains some substantial additions to the language, some much needed library additions, and in general is full of goodies:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/index.jsp
When you want the best, you want coffee that's already been eaten by weasels.
Firebox's Weasel Coffee
I've already bought some for my (sadly ex-) boss, who was proud of his weasel status and not under fond of the odd cappuccino.
D.
Pick a noun. Is it a trade mark ? You bet.
Pick a verb. Is it a trade mark ? You bet.
Pick a proper name. Does it sound dumb as a product name ? Yep.
Repeat as required.
So yes, all the good ones are chosen. The formula allows you to pick something more or less intelligible without handing your soul and wallet to the rebranding dickheads (Centrica anyone ?).
It's just getting a little stale that's all... we need a new formula.
Although now I think about it, maybe Susan isn't such a bad name for a product. Hmm...
Given that the annual income of HP is on the order of $87 billion, she only has to carry out changes that improve that figure by 0.1% to justify her income.
The market capitalization is even higher of course, and it's the shareholders she has to justify herself to, not you, me, or the employees.
Ahh, the R Tape Loading Error, how I miss that !
Actually, I had three computers with tape drives. One was the ZX81 with an elderly desk tape recorder. The ZX81 had to switch off the screen routine while it was handling the mo/dem to tape. I'm not making this up.
Then there was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. By the time I got this, I had some awful MIDI HiFi system that was about 50 times the size of the computer, but it did have good enough fidelity to retrieve iffy pirate copies of Elite every other attempt or so. I had a genuine purchased copy, mind, but that only loaded once a fortnight...
And finally, there was the Wang 2200 system that my dad did work on. The tape drive was built into the terminal next to the nice green screen and above a keyboard that used a solenoid to produce that authentic CLUNK action.
I love disks so much I could cry.
I did some work for an internationally renowned company. Their IT department was (with good reason) obsessive about security.
To get your login, a representative of the IT department gave you a sealed envelope in person. Your manager was not allowed to receive it on your behalf under any circumstances.
To reset your password to the current day of the week, however, all you had to do was ring the helpdesk and say "I've forgotten my password, and my name is..."
There's resistence to changing this approach 'cos the complex password requirement and the enforced 30 day password expiration result in multiple daily requests for this.
Nicely illustrates the point, I think.
That's just obtuse.
It's popular because it was first to market.
It was first to market because it was cheap.
It was cheap because it made a load of design compromises.
It made a load of design compromises so it's a bitch to program.
Pay for a mail address with spamcop.
http://www.spamcop.net/
I can blame them.
I purchased Office X for OSX, and it comes with MSN Messenger. I could download the "free" version, but since I access the internet over GPRS on my mobile phone that actually works out considerably less than "free" for me.
One pissed off customer.
D.
After reading this story about Russell Lewis's (Verisign GM) memo to staff, I registered "bookstre.com" and pointed it to Google via the Easily.co.uk redirector.
Now, until the DNS entry propagated, and in the 15 minute window before the non-existant domain timed out, I was still seeing the SiteFinder "domain". Obviously it's a contrived example, but I think it illustrates an important point:
I paid good money for this domain
Who said Verisign could use it ?
Legitimate domain registrations are still going to suffer from this decision, so I suspect this would be a legitimate set of grounds for a class action against Verisign.
Mobile phone ?
Presumably there's something similar to the Sony Ericsson P800 available in the US.
That and a bit of custom software should do the trick. It'll be pricey to get someone else to write it, but if you're able, all the dev software you need is freely available.
If some of your customer's stores are out of mobile range, fallback to fax.
D.
Slashdot
Slashdot
Dupe.
So what's morse for left curly brace ?
If there's a phone number, then leaflet all of the phone boxes in the Kings Cross area with it advertising their "services"...
D.
Lots of tips & tricks for mozilla at MozillaTips logically enough.
They've got some good stuff already, but could probably use the extra traffic !
D.
Taco, if you really believe that, then Slashdot is the place to launch TacoBeans the new micropayment solution from OSDN. Seriously.
If you don't really believe it, why did you say it ?
The mnemonic for this that I was taught was:
Didn't do much to reduce the number of singe marks on my hands though...
That's, uh, Boeing. The Boing 777 would be made of rubber.
I haven't done the maths, but I do use it to watch DIVX movies all the time - and that on 11Mb. So anything faster will be fine.
Somewhere in one of the iterations of step 8, you omitted
8.1) Go bust.
May I humbly suggest the good Dr Andrew S. Tanembaum ?
As well as being the creator of Minix (which in some senses can be considered the natural predecessor of Linux) he has written some of the best introductory computer science books around.
If you haven't read his pithy tomes on Computer Networks or Modern Operating Systems then you really ought to check them out.
Anyone who might feel inclined to disregard him because of that old spat with Linus should take a look at this entry in his FAQ:
What do you think of Linux?
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Linus for producing it. Before there was Linux there was MINIX, which had a 40,000-person newsgroup, most of whom were sending me email every day. I was going crazy with the endless stream of new features people were sending me. I kept refusing them all because I wanted to keep MINIX small enough for my students to understand in one semester. My consistent refusal to add all these new features is what inspired Linus to write Linux. Both of us are now happy with the results. The only person who is perhaps not so happy is Bill Gates. I think this is a good thing.
Er...
Ok, so this probably isn't your earliest post:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF -8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=883635762.336003081%40de janews.com
But it seems to be something you posted nearly four years ago. And there's quite an extensive list of posts that appear to be from you.
Are you sure you vetted each and every one to make sure you didn't give away anything unintentionally ?
D.
To add some possible confirmation to that theory:
This site would suggest that the Washington Post has about 3000 users, which is the size of organization specified.
Note that it is, or was a Lotus Domino based system.
Broadly speaking, I would say the Washington Post were the good guys, wouldn't you ?
D.
I can only point you to the following internet standard:
Subliminal Telnet
So yes, someone thought of it before.
Dave.