This is not directed at the parent, per se. I have to wonder do people presenting Ubuntu to management refer to "M$ Winblows" or "MEsta" in their comparisons to the competition? How much more professional is "Longhorn" for a multi-year development project?
Why would any presentation to a PHB include anything but the professional reference of Ubuntu GNU/Linuxw v7.10 (or more properly for extended business use 5.10 LTS).
Why would development project names for any alpha/beta platform have a place in "selling" a change to the suits.
I would also have to ask if the naming is such a hot button, is there something uncromulent about CentOS 5.0 as an alternative?
Looks like a perfectly cromulent assesment to me. Much more likely a congresscritter cast a vote because of some reward factor than some bogus moral imperative based on the critters ethics./snigger
IANARA (Risk Analyst) but there are many more factors to be taken into account. I would certainly like to see the actual analysis and probabilities to quell my concern that a thorough risk analysis was actually done instead of a show of hands. To your point though, prior posts raise the danger of an EVA to that astronaut and to the shuttle and its tiles, while attempting the repair. Also there is introducing unknowns into the airflow with protrusions by the "goop" instead of the gouges (which other shuttle re-entries with similar gouges found afterwards have not shown to be a significant danger). Integrating those associated risks make a repair attempt far from the "no-brainer" implied.
It also exhibits a pet peeve of mine, neglecting to check the return value, probably learned by using MS defective by design sample code. Checking the return code of "_stprintf" would show the buffer overflow coding error "Return Value
The number of characters written, or -1 if an error occurred. If buffer or format is a null pointer, sprintf_s and swprintf_s return -1 and set errno to EINVAL."http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c e3zzk1k(VS.80).aspx Of course this only lets you know something screwed up after the stack has been corrupted. Properly coded it should probably be using some variant of snprintf where the size of the target buffer is passed and the overrun avoided. I haven't written or audited a lick of code in more than five years, but the unsuitability of this code for production is pretty obvious. This should have never been allowed to be checked in, although if this is the quality of code produced one has to wonder if any kind of source code control is in place either.
Create concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide without blowing up your secret laboratory
Bring Sulfuric acid, H2O2 & acetone on board, keeping them cool with frozen gel packs
Also needed: a thermometer, a large beaker, a stirring rod, and a medicine dropper.
Secertly schlep all this to the WC
For the next couple hours add acid, drop by drop, while stirring constantly
ignore flight attendants banging on WC door asking about the terrible odor.
Hope you brought enough gel packs, if the solution gets too hot, you get a weak explosive or even a small explosion that probably kills/injures only you
Allow to dry an hour or so
ignore flight attendants continued banging on WC door
While a slapdash concoction will explode, it's unlikely to do more than blow out a few windows, you need enough quality, quantity and potency to bring down the plane.
It seems a much better solution would be to restrain anyone who spends more than 30 minutes in the WC.
So by keeping them off the list, they don't draw any attention to such uses and so we are all better protected.
Because we all know Security by obscurity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_by_obscurity has an excellent track record for keeping us safe. I fear the unjustifiable rules of bureaucrats and the resulting loss of our freedoms far more than the actions of notsoscaryists they wave as justification for their idiocies.
Your opinion seems to be based on the assumption that a politician is imbued with even a modicum of dignity. Mouthing lies for money pretty much proves they are totally lacking in the attribute.
it would be pulling teeth to convince those other guys to open their code as well.
We don't WANT their crufty code, just accurate and detailed hardware specs and maybe a little email back and forth with a knowledgeable liason to elaborate the places where things are uncertain or missing.
For the most part we aren't even seeking the latest and greatest features, a solid, performing and MAINTAINABLE driver is the goal.
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Looks more like executive chaos to me.
Congress needs to pass a law rescinding ALL executive orders and force the morons in the executive branch to submit their proposed^Wunconstitutional regulations to the appropriate representative body, hopefully for debate and revision rather than a rubber stamp, if the executive branch should even be allowed to do that. Rescind and outlaw "signing statements" while they are at it, legislating from the oval office is not what our founding fathers had in mind, and has to be the single most dangerous thing to the United States, much more so than the notsoscaryists the appointed mouth-breathers blather on about.
Agreed, Target has a $20 low-end Kyrocera phone, it uses a proprietary charger socket, but the wall charger is included. If you want an auto charger its cheaper to get an inverter http://www.all-battery.com/index.asp?PageAction=VI EWPROD&ProdID=451. I wanted a cheap phone to take incoming calls, 0.18/min, charge it up $20 every 3 months (I am still on the $2.00 start-up and its good till September) other vendors have cheaper per minute by a couple pennies but require more frequent top-up. The have other plans that look pretty reasonable if you anticipate more activity. If you activate over the web you can keep it very anonymous.
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Maybe it could assist aforesaid members in avoiding undesirable content?
Top that for horror Mr. Koontz.
This is not directed at the parent, per se.
I have to wonder do people presenting Ubuntu to management refer to "M$ Winblows" or "MEsta" in their comparisons to the competition? How much more professional is "Longhorn" for a multi-year development project? Why would any presentation to a PHB include anything but the professional reference of Ubuntu GNU/Linuxw v7.10 (or more properly for extended business use 5.10 LTS). Why would development project names for any alpha/beta platform have a place in "selling" a change to the suits.
I would also have to ask if the naming is such a hot button, is there something uncromulent about CentOS 5.0 as an alternative?
Much more likely a congresscritter cast a vote because of some reward factor than some bogus moral imperative based on the critters ethics.
You got photons on the futon! I aint cleaning up that mess.
Kidding aside. All my best hopes and wishes for the safe return of the crew.
"Honest" or "hardworking" with web site owners or developers.
Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap. So even if you find that idealist, you only have 1 chance in 10 of them being competent.
(Apologies to the Rev. Mr. Dodgson).
It also exhibits a pet peeve of mine, neglecting to check the return value, probably learned by using MS defective by design sample code. Checking the return code of "_stprintf" would show the buffer overflow coding errorc e3zzk1k(VS.80).aspx
"Return Value
The number of characters written, or -1 if an error occurred. If buffer or format is a null pointer, sprintf_s and swprintf_s return -1 and set errno to EINVAL."http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
Of course this only lets you know something screwed up after the stack has been corrupted. Properly coded it should probably be using some variant of snprintf where the size of the target buffer is passed and the overrun avoided. I haven't written or audited a lick of code in more than five years, but the unsuitability of this code for production is pretty obvious. This should have never been allowed to be checked in, although if this is the quality of code produced one has to wonder if any kind of source code control is in place either.
"Making a quantity of TATP sufficient to bring down an airplane is not quite as simple as ducking into the toilet and mixing two harmless liquids together."e lid=80&contentid=3831&page=2
Summary:
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?chann
Create concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide without blowing up your secret laboratory
Bring Sulfuric acid, H2O2 & acetone on board, keeping them cool with frozen gel packs
Also needed: a thermometer, a large beaker, a stirring rod, and a medicine dropper.
Secertly schlep all this to the WC
For the next couple hours add acid, drop by drop, while stirring constantly
ignore flight attendants banging on WC door asking about the terrible odor.
Hope you brought enough gel packs, if the solution gets too hot, you get a weak explosive or even a small explosion that probably kills/injures only you
Allow to dry an hour or so
ignore flight attendants continued banging on WC door
While a slapdash concoction will explode, it's unlikely to do more than blow out a few windows, you need enough quality, quantity and potency to bring down the plane.
It seems a much better solution would be to restrain anyone who spends more than 30 minutes in the WC.
Your opinion seems to be based on the assumption that a politician is imbued with even a modicum of dignity. Mouthing lies for money pretty much proves they are totally lacking in the attribute.
I can think of a Redmond corporation who would be very interested in easily spreading disinformation via a trusted source.
There, fixed that for ya.
It looked like a perfectly cromulent summary to me.
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Or maybe make arrangements with Aruba to host the servers pay them under similar rules of the current system.
Looks more like executive chaos to me.
Congress needs to pass a law rescinding ALL executive orders and force the morons in the executive branch to submit their proposed^Wunconstitutional regulations to the appropriate representative body, hopefully for debate and revision rather than a rubber stamp, if the executive branch should even be allowed to do that. Rescind and outlaw "signing statements" while they are at it, legislating from the oval office is not what our founding fathers had in mind, and has to be the single most dangerous thing to the United States, much more so than the notsoscaryists the appointed mouth-breathers blather on about.
Agreed, Target has a $20 low-end Kyrocera phone, it uses a proprietary charger socket, but the wall charger is included. If you want an auto charger its cheaper to get an inverter http://www.all-battery.com/index.asp?PageAction=VI EWPROD&ProdID=451. I wanted a cheap phone to take incoming calls, 0.18/min, charge it up $20 every 3 months (I am still on the $2.00 start-up and its good till September) other vendors have cheaper per minute by a couple pennies but require more frequent top-up. The have other plans that look pretty reasonable if you anticipate more activity. If you activate over the web you can keep it very anonymous.