"Most People" running systems important enough to require an emergency kernel recompile on a Sunday, and who would do it over SSH rather than driving in to the office probably have all the aforementioned equipment.
"Enterprise Class" means easy to manage - it doesn't specifically mean more secure.
But even if it did, if someone can get the source code on to a machine to use a compiler, then they can use a compiler on another machine and copy the resultant binary. Removing the compiler is sacrificing convenience for no actual gain in security.
In any case - there's nothing about the post you're replying to that necessarily implies a compiler was on the machine. Most likely you'd compile the new kernel once, on a machine running your SOE, create and operating system package for it, then deploy it to all the affected machines. If one doesn't reboot after the update, then the remote management interface the grandparent was referring to will allow you to interact with the machine's console without the OS running.
hmmm, I hadn't thought of that aspect of it. I wonder if they just filter emails with addresses in their netblock? That would actually make sense. If they just filtered mails with any numeric URL in them it'd be bad though.
Whether or not you're running a home server, sending an email containing a URL certainly shouldn't breach the ToS. They're not going to filter emails referring to a breaching server, they'd contact you about the server or terminate your service.
Well if it manages to go from 9.10 to 10.04, and from 99.10 to 100.04, then I think it's probably a fair bet that no one will be to scared to go from 999.10 to 1000.04
Note that cmd.exe isn't a true shell like bash, it's more or less just a command runner - it doesn't pre-process or expand the arguments before it runs the command (except possibly in the case of environment variables), it just sends them as-is (even globs are re-implemented in every Windows command line program that wants to support them). So it's not so much that cmd.exe uses / for switches (though it does), it's that the standard set of windows command line tools do. But if you're running other programs on the command line that take a path as an argument, there's no reason why you can't pass '/' delimited paths.
In particular, fopen() in the windows CRT (effectively libc) accepts both forward and backward slashes as delimiters.
In any case, if you ever come across code in a program that has something like #ifdef WIN32 #define DELIM '\\' #else #define DELIM '/' #endif
Then it's completely unnecessary, and should be removed. (Assuming that Windows NT and Unix like operating systems are the only platforms supported, which is usually the case these days)
Because that sucks too. Vista's Start Menu problems are that it's half significant improvement, and half abomination.
If they'd just drop the scrolling menus and go back to popup for All Programs, it'd be fine. Scrolling menus are one of the worst UI ideas ever. I've never seen an instance in which scrolling menus have been a good idea.
That's not a unique take, that's the same old tired objections that we've been hearing since the project started. The XO is not intended to go to children who can't afford food. How dense can some people be?
According to the Anandtech review they gave them a real (though pre-production) CPU, and only had them overclock an existing motherboard - merely overclocking an existing processor wouldn't account for the massive differences in power usage.
Additionally this is why criminals lose their franchise in the democracy (they "gave it up" when they exceeded a social norm for antisocial behavior). The problem with that is that people that disagree with the norms run the risk of losing their right to change them without doing anything that they themselves see as wrong.
I have no problem with prosecuting and throwing in jail someone who does something wrong (as defined by the society they're part of) - I do have a problem with them no longer having the right to take part in changing the system that put them there. They didn't give up the right, they had it taken away.
That's a wonderful rant, but has nothing to do with whether or not there is any evidence that the individual you accused of hypocrisy is in fact hypocritical.
How can you call someone hypocritical for something you're only conjecturing they might do? What in his post led you to believe that he thinks Microsoft investors deserve less money than Apple ones?
I'm neither supporting nor rejecting his position, but your post is a complete waste of time - you're ranting about a double standard with no evidence to support it's existence.
yup, and you can guarantee that every article that mentions a study of any sort will be tagged with "correlationisnotcausation" and will be full of sarcastic replies from armchair scientists dismissing the whole thing (without reading the article) because of it.
I don't think it's even occurred to most of these idiots that if something really _does_ cause something, then there _will_ be correlation. Sure, correlation in itself doesn't prove anything, but it's a good way to identify something that's worth examining further.
GIF was never an important part of anything to do with Unisys.
Unisys is about consulting services and mainframes. The GIF stuff was just a piece of opportunism that resulted from them discovering "ooh, look, we've got a patent", and "ooh look, everyone's infringing on it" (the patent itself was filed just prior to the merger between Sperry and Burroughs that created Unisys and it was never core business anyway). It wasn't the smartest PR move for them, but it made 0 impact on their business.
The sort of people who would boycott Unisys for the GIF issue, would never have found themselves in the situation where they would be considering their products or services anyway. (Except for the ones who are inevitably going to reply to this with their - most likely anonymous - anecdotes about how they were personally responsible for a $100 million mainframe purchase and chose IBM or HP over Unisys just because of GIF)
Any fading out of existence Unisys may have done is entirely due to unrelated issues. However, they haven't really faded any more or less than any other mainframe and consulting company. The GIF issue just happened to bring them to the notice of the Slashdot crowd for a while, that's all.
> What I'm trying to express is that music prices are waaaay toooooo high. And I totally disagree with you - at least in the context of a $7 physical album. Where can you get up to 72 minutes of entertainment for $7?
In terms of what you get for your money, $7 for an album is pretty fair. Particularly since no one would buy an album they only planned on listening to once. Even if the music itself cost nothing at all to make, $7 is not a wholly unreasonable fee for the service of making it available and convenient to get.
Of course, once you start talking about $20 albums the picture becomes different, but you specifically said that $7 was too much.
If you want the bits and not the plastic then you were never a potential AnywhereCD customer anyway. They're selling the CD - that's the point, and you get the mp3 version immediately so you don't have to wait (and don't have to rip it yourself if you don't want to)
So if you're not interested in getting the CD, then go to iTunes or something.
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"Most People" running systems important enough to require an emergency kernel recompile on a Sunday, and who would do it over SSH rather than driving in to the office probably have all the aforementioned equipment.
"Enterprise Class" means easy to manage - it doesn't specifically mean more secure.
But even if it did, if someone can get the source code on to a machine to use a compiler, then they can use a compiler on another machine and copy the resultant binary. Removing the compiler is sacrificing convenience for no actual gain in security.
In any case - there's nothing about the post you're replying to that necessarily implies a compiler was on the machine. Most likely you'd compile the new kernel once, on a machine running your SOE, create and operating system package for it, then deploy it to all the affected machines.
If one doesn't reboot after the update, then the remote management interface the grandparent was referring to will allow you to interact with the machine's console without the OS running.
hmmm, I hadn't thought of that aspect of it.
I wonder if they just filter emails with addresses in their netblock? That would actually make sense.
If they just filtered mails with any numeric URL in them it'd be bad though.
That's got nothing to do with it though.
Whether or not you're running a home server, sending an email containing a URL certainly shouldn't breach the ToS. They're not going to filter emails referring to a breaching server, they'd contact you about the server or terminate your service.
Well if it manages to go from 9.10 to 10.04, and from 99.10 to 100.04, then I think it's probably a fair bet that no one will be to scared to go from 999.10 to 1000.04
No, it's a new built-in feature in 2.6.24
Note that cmd.exe isn't a true shell like bash, it's more or less just a command runner - it doesn't pre-process or expand the arguments before it runs the command (except possibly in the case of environment variables), it just sends them as-is (even globs are re-implemented in every Windows command line program that wants to support them).
So it's not so much that cmd.exe uses / for switches (though it does), it's that the standard set of windows command line tools do.
But if you're running other programs on the command line that take a path as an argument, there's no reason why you can't pass '/' delimited paths.
In particular, fopen() in the windows CRT (effectively libc) accepts both forward and backward slashes as delimiters.
In any case, if you ever come across code in a program that has something like
#ifdef WIN32
#define DELIM '\\'
#else
#define DELIM '/'
#endif
Then it's completely unnecessary, and should be removed. (Assuming that Windows NT and Unix like operating systems are the only platforms supported, which is usually the case these days)
They're correct.
For a qualified, experienced (10+ years) programmer in Sydney, 89,000 is about average.
When it's a joke.
As much as I was bemused by considering a UID > 100,000 as low, I still understood that the post wasn't serious.
When did 6 digits become a low UID?
I was expecting 3 or 4.
Because that sucks too.
Vista's Start Menu problems are that it's half significant improvement, and half abomination.
If they'd just drop the scrolling menus and go back to popup for All Programs, it'd be fine.
Scrolling menus are one of the worst UI ideas ever. I've never seen an instance in which scrolling menus have been a good idea.
That's not a unique take, that's the same old tired objections that we've been hearing since the project started.
The XO is not intended to go to children who can't afford food. How dense can some people be?
Oh wait - it's Dvorak, silly question.
"That's right, you payed ten _whole_ dollars. You practically own the aeroplane for that"
You mean (very amateurish) armchair editors.
Linguists don't criticise language usage, they study and learn from it.
Since when is an ad-supported product immediately spyware?
Besides the fact that it's not ad-supported any more.
I was wondering exactly the same thing - I'm not sure why you got modded as flamebait for asking...
According to the Anandtech review they gave them a real (though pre-production) CPU, and only had them overclock an existing motherboard - merely overclocking an existing processor wouldn't account for the massive differences in power usage.
Prussia, even at the height of its Empire when it covered most of modern Germany and Poland, still didn't include modern Russia.
I have no problem with prosecuting and throwing in jail someone who does something wrong (as defined by the society they're part of) - I do have a problem with them no longer having the right to take part in changing the system that put them there. They didn't give up the right, they had it taken away.
That's a wonderful rant, but has nothing to do with whether or not there is any evidence that the individual you accused of hypocrisy is in fact hypocritical.
How can you call someone hypocritical for something you're only conjecturing they might do?
What in his post led you to believe that he thinks Microsoft investors deserve less money than Apple ones?
I'm neither supporting nor rejecting his position, but your post is a complete waste of time - you're ranting about a double standard with no evidence to support it's existence.
yup, and you can guarantee that every article that mentions a study of any sort will be tagged with "correlationisnotcausation" and will be full of sarcastic replies from armchair scientists dismissing the whole thing (without reading the article) because of it.
I don't think it's even occurred to most of these idiots that if something really _does_ cause something, then there _will_ be correlation.
Sure, correlation in itself doesn't prove anything, but it's a good way to identify something that's worth examining further.
GIF was never an important part of anything to do with Unisys.
Unisys is about consulting services and mainframes. The GIF stuff was just a piece of opportunism that resulted from them discovering "ooh, look, we've got a patent", and "ooh look, everyone's infringing on it" (the patent itself was filed just prior to the merger between Sperry and Burroughs that created Unisys and it was never core business anyway).
It wasn't the smartest PR move for them, but it made 0 impact on their business.
The sort of people who would boycott Unisys for the GIF issue, would never have found themselves in the situation where they would be considering their products or services anyway. (Except for the ones who are inevitably going to reply to this with their - most likely anonymous - anecdotes about how they were personally responsible for a $100 million mainframe purchase and chose IBM or HP over Unisys just because of GIF)
Any fading out of existence Unisys may have done is entirely due to unrelated issues. However, they haven't really faded any more or less than any other mainframe and consulting company. The GIF issue just happened to bring them to the notice of the Slashdot crowd for a while, that's all.
> What I'm trying to express is that music prices are waaaay toooooo high.
And I totally disagree with you - at least in the context of a $7 physical album.
Where can you get up to 72 minutes of entertainment for $7?
In terms of what you get for your money, $7 for an album is pretty fair. Particularly since no one would buy an album they only planned on listening to once.
Even if the music itself cost nothing at all to make, $7 is not a wholly unreasonable fee for the service of making it available and convenient to get.
Of course, once you start talking about $20 albums the picture becomes different, but you specifically said that $7 was too much.
If you want the bits and not the plastic then you were never a potential AnywhereCD customer anyway.
They're selling the CD - that's the point, and you get the mp3 version immediately so you don't have to wait (and don't have to rip it yourself if you don't want to)
So if you're not interested in getting the CD, then go to iTunes or something.