Did I miss that? When I saw LOTR:FOTR in the theater, the fights went by awfully fast...so fast I'll have to skip frame to frame on my DVD player to see what's actually happening.
My parents bought an '83 240 sedan of the same color blue that's still running for their kids to use. They have a black 760 turbo wagon from the early 90's. When I got out of college they gave me a dark silver '91 240 sedan (also built like a tank). I walked away from a 55 mph crash in it (hit the side of the other guy's car with my nose). Built like a tank. Now I have a white '91 turbo wagon.
Volvos are truly the best cars...as a matter of fact, Volvo has been running ads for a giveaway of a new sedan during the NCAA tournament. You should sign up...or go find another late 80's-early 90's Volvo:)
Your chevy in battlebot mode
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...can't defeat my Volvo...so there:)
There still is a potential market out there
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It's called "university networks." I know for sure our engineering network had very strict policies on downloading/storing porn/warez/etc. Basically anything illegal (or porn related) got your network acess revoked. I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case at other universities. Ours didn't have any spyware AFAIK, but I can see where there would be a commercial application. (I should add, btw, that ours at Auburn was a mostly Sun network in engineering...as opposed to the win98 boxen for the regular campus labs)
Actually, I'm pretty sure we didn't have any spyware running. Case in point: one day this guy calls up the network admin office and asks to have his "important files" restored to his account after the quarterly purge (1 count of being stupid: he forgot to back things up). The very nice woman who handles such things went to the tape archive and started looking to see what files needed to be restored. Turns out there were files there with names like "man_and_woman_on_roof_...ing.jpg" (counts 2 & 3 for stupidity: downloading porn to your engineering account and giving the admin department a reason to find this out). His access was revoked very quickly...and he didn't get his "important" files back (count 4 for stupidity: go back and download the files again if they are that important).
Anyway...point is, I see a reason to do it. I'm not sure if such a thing exists, but there is a market there.
Additional measures...
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1. have the anti-spyware regularly check its files for integrity. If the files have changed, download a replacement.
2. Incorporate some of the latest virus technology (e.g., piggyback on spyware, change names, locations, and dll file names and locations, etc).
This might not necessarily solve the entire problem, but it could certainly up the ante.
Pursuasive, but I have a question...
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Doing this would be a sure-fire way to royally anger every sane-minded person out there. No legal action possible, of course, but a lot of ill-will, screams, flames and gnashing of teeth, especially if said GPL'd code includes volunteer work (which you seem to imply). Boycott of the company's product seems a logical conclusion.
The company is out to sell this code. What are the chances that their target market is the same set (or even an overlapping set) of the group that would hypothetically boycott the software? That is, if the company in question is expecting to resell this to businesses, just how many of their potential clients do you see saying "Oh my gosh...they violated the spirit of the GPL! Let's boycott!"?
From my POV, I don't see that happening. Even within the open source community, were this offered for sale as an end-user product, I doubt a boycott would make much of a difference since most of us are cheap (as in, free beer). I'm guessing here, but I think the idea of a boycott, as nice as it might be, is simply unworkable in this case. Maybe the original annonymous poster could clear things up a little?
Do we continue to chang Microsoft's favorite slogan: "1 degree of separation"? Which starts to sound like "less protection"...and if it's really so easy to use...well...might make people wish for the old days with non-standard standards;)
seem to disagree with your POV. I'm admittedly biased, (see my site, but I'mnottheonlyone. In fact, I'd much prefer to have the web designer set the background color, as very often you run across sites that assume you have your default background color set to white, so there main logo is black text with a drop shadow on a white rectangle--which looks like crap if your background color is grey (default UNIX Netscape) or light blue or tan.
Admittedly people need to be careful and judicious when designing pages. Putting red text on a fractal background image or lime green text on an off blue background are evil. If you want to try overriding somebodie's site with images=off background=grey text=black, good luck, but you may find the site to be an ugly mess.
Sheesh. Europa is a moon of Jupiter. Europe is a continenton, as you put it, "the other side of the pond." Sounds like the "European" can't tell the difference.
Why tell us where to buy it...
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...if the book is truly pathetic? Not having read the book (and, based on the review, not particularly desiring to), I can't vouch for the review's accuracy. However, it seems reasonable to me that if a book is glaringly erroneous that one would not actually promote its sale by publishing a link for it. Did I miss something?
I had the pleasure^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hmisfortune of having to take most of my programming courses at Auburn University in the CSE department. For four years I learned about linked lists, trees, etc. using Ada. I will give you that it is a very verbose language, but I would not call it intuitive. It's certainly not as intuitive to read in a float, munge it into text, and then print it all out. Consider that it would take me more lines of code to print "Your order is $29.95" in Ada than it would in Perl, C, C++, or (maybe) Java. It would certainly require more hoop-jumping than Perl, but I'm not biased.
They tell me that the running wage for good Ada programmers is well over $100k/year. Some get 2-4 times that. Perl programmers don't generally get that much, but I'd rather do Perl than Ada because it is so anal-retentive. If you want to make sure your airplane doesn't crash due to software failure, use Ada. For anything else, find another language.
Ada may be stable, but anal-retentive verbosity does not intuitivity define.
disallow anything coming from a foreign domain, hotmail, yahoo, msn, geocities, or aol.:)
I used to have a usa.net address that would let you "filter" spam, but somehow it never seemed to work. Sometimes I wonder if the spammers paid usa.net to circumvent the "anti-spam" measures...
Of course, now that usa.net is a for-fee service, I've moved on, so they can continue to spam the heck out of that account. Matter of fact, I've been known to use it for registering things like Netscape since I don't have to deal with cleaning out its inbox anymore. Bummer.:)
Supposedly I have a roadrunner account, and supposedly I once had an @home account. Using Linux, and not using their connection software, I've never checked my ISP email accounts...what a shame.
...but when the idiot clerk at the store runs your DVD over the demagnetizer, it doesn't completely junk your new purchase. Unlike some dim-bulb at Borders who managed to do that with some VHS tapes I was purchasing. Said I, "Don't get those to close to the demagnetizer. I don't want the tapes to get ruined." He replied, "It doesn't do it til I push the button." Uh huh. That's why three movies came out of the shrink wrap toast. Morons.
1. Make sure the little-used broom closet is in fact completely unused or some janitor might decide to pawn your colo.
2. Make sure your linux/*bsd boxen have a way of sensing when they lose link to dhcp, re-link, and then notify your primary dns of the new NAT addresses.
3. If you're really clever, use one of the boxen as a gateway/firewall, put the others behind it, and then you can have security AND simplify step 2 in one stroke. Oh yes, and you have the pride of saying you have a private subnet behind yet another private subnet.
Don't forget the power, the UPS, and the monitoring equipment. If you really want to keep tabs, get one of those fancy swivelling x10 cameras to keep a 360 degree view of the surroundings, along with some kind of warning/defense system to protect the equipment against would-be thieves.
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doesn't mean it was necessarily worse ;)
Did I miss that? When I saw LOTR:FOTR in the theater, the fights went by awfully fast...so fast I'll have to skip frame to frame on my DVD player to see what's actually happening.
My parents bought an '83 240 sedan of the same color blue that's still running for their kids to use. They have a black 760 turbo wagon from the early 90's. When I got out of college they gave me a dark silver '91 240 sedan (also built like a tank). I walked away from a 55 mph crash in it (hit the side of the other guy's car with my nose). Built like a tank. Now I have a white '91 turbo wagon.
:)
Volvos are truly the best cars...as a matter of fact, Volvo has been running ads for a giveaway of a new sedan during the NCAA tournament. You should sign up...or go find another late 80's-early 90's Volvo
...can't defeat my Volvo...so there :)
It's called "university networks." I know for sure our engineering network had very strict policies on downloading/storing porn/warez/etc. Basically anything illegal (or porn related) got your network acess revoked. I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case at other universities. Ours didn't have any spyware AFAIK, but I can see where there would be a commercial application. (I should add, btw, that ours at Auburn was a mostly Sun network in engineering...as opposed to the win98 boxen for the regular campus labs)
Actually, I'm pretty sure we didn't have any spyware running. Case in point: one day this guy calls up the network admin office and asks to have his "important files" restored to his account after the quarterly purge (1 count of being stupid: he forgot to back things up). The very nice woman who handles such things went to the tape archive and started looking to see what files needed to be restored. Turns out there were files there with names like "man_and_woman_on_roof_...ing.jpg" (counts 2 & 3 for stupidity: downloading porn to your engineering account and giving the admin department a reason to find this out). His access was revoked very quickly...and he didn't get his "important" files back (count 4 for stupidity: go back and download the files again if they are that important).
Anyway...point is, I see a reason to do it. I'm not sure if such a thing exists, but there is a market there.
1. have the anti-spyware regularly check its files for integrity. If the files have changed, download a replacement.
2. Incorporate some of the latest virus technology (e.g., piggyback on spyware, change names, locations, and dll file names and locations, etc).
This might not necessarily solve the entire problem, but it could certainly up the ante.
Doing this would be a sure-fire way to royally anger every sane-minded person out there. No legal action possible, of course, but a lot of ill-will, screams, flames and gnashing of teeth, especially if said GPL'd code includes volunteer work (which you seem to imply). Boycott of the company's product seems a logical conclusion.
The company is out to sell this code. What are the chances that their target market is the same set (or even an overlapping set) of the group that would hypothetically boycott the software? That is, if the company in question is expecting to resell this to businesses, just how many of their potential clients do you see saying "Oh my gosh...they violated the spirit of the GPL! Let's boycott!"?
From my POV, I don't see that happening. Even within the open source community, were this offered for sale as an end-user product, I doubt a boycott would make much of a difference since most of us are cheap (as in, free beer). I'm guessing here, but I think the idea of a boycott, as nice as it might be, is simply unworkable in this case. Maybe the original annonymous poster could clear things up a little?
"Sidewalk denial of surface attack"
gee I crack myself up...
what's a preview button anyway?
Do we continue to chang Microsoft's favorite slogan: "1 degree of separation"? Which starts to sound like "less protection"...and if it's really so easy to use...well...might make people wish for the old days with non-standard standards ;)
seem to disagree with your POV. I'm admittedly biased, (see my site, but I'm not the only one. In fact, I'd much prefer to have the web designer set the background color, as very often you run across sites that assume you have your default background color set to white, so there main logo is black text with a drop shadow on a white rectangle--which looks like crap if your background color is grey (default UNIX Netscape) or light blue or tan.
Admittedly people need to be careful and judicious when designing pages. Putting red text on a fractal background image or lime green text on an off blue background are evil. If you want to try overriding somebodie's site with images=off background=grey text=black, good luck, but you may find the site to be an ugly mess.
"I am altering the agreement. Pray I don't alter it further."
Sigh. And just like Anakin Skywalker, no doubt Bill Gates was a nice kid before he turned to the dark side.
Microsoft goes and changes the format and breaks the plugin? Oh...and does the plugin let WMP do it's little data collection tricks?
Would you use Superstats for your e-biz?
tourism board ;)
Sheesh. Europa is a moon of Jupiter. Europe is a continenton, as you put it, "the other side of the pond." Sounds like the "European" can't tell the difference.
...if the book is truly pathetic? Not having read the book (and, based on the review, not particularly desiring to), I can't vouch for the review's accuracy. However, it seems reasonable to me that if a book is glaringly erroneous that one would not actually promote its sale by publishing a link for it. Did I miss something?
...is more than we can say about your father. Bummer.
is an old cliche...so I don't think 1200 page books are exactly a new innovation...although O'Reilly seems to avoid it most of the time.
I had the pleasure^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hmisfortune of having to take most of my programming courses at Auburn University in the CSE department. For four years I learned about linked lists, trees, etc. using Ada. I will give you that it is a very verbose language, but I would not call it intuitive. It's certainly not as intuitive to read in a float, munge it into text, and then print it all out. Consider that it would take me more lines of code to print "Your order is $29.95" in Ada than it would in Perl, C, C++, or (maybe) Java. It would certainly require more hoop-jumping than Perl, but I'm not biased.
They tell me that the running wage for good Ada programmers is well over $100k/year. Some get 2-4 times that. Perl programmers don't generally get that much, but I'd rather do Perl than Ada because it is so anal-retentive. If you want to make sure your airplane doesn't crash due to software failure, use Ada. For anything else, find another language.
Ada may be stable, but anal-retentive verbosity does not intuitivity define.
But anybody who tries to sell generic (TM) Spam (R) might find themselves in deep "potted meat product." ;)
disallow anything coming from a foreign domain, hotmail, yahoo, msn, geocities, or aol. :)
:)
I used to have a usa.net address that would let you "filter" spam, but somehow it never seemed to work. Sometimes I wonder if the spammers paid usa.net to circumvent the "anti-spam" measures...
Of course, now that usa.net is a for-fee service, I've moved on, so they can continue to spam the heck out of that account. Matter of fact, I've been known to use it for registering things like Netscape since I don't have to deal with cleaning out its inbox anymore. Bummer.
Supposedly I have a roadrunner account, and supposedly I once had an @home account. Using Linux, and not using their connection software, I've never checked my ISP email accounts...what a shame.
...but when the idiot clerk at the store runs your DVD over the demagnetizer, it doesn't completely junk your new purchase. Unlike some dim-bulb at Borders who managed to do that with some VHS tapes I was purchasing. Said I, "Don't get those to close to the demagnetizer. I don't want the tapes to get ruined." He replied, "It doesn't do it til I push the button." Uh huh. That's why three movies came out of the shrink wrap toast. Morons.
but that certainly sounds good. An R/C tank with mini cannon and stun gun sounds better though :)
1. Make sure the little-used broom closet is in fact completely unused or some janitor might decide to pawn your colo.
2. Make sure your linux/*bsd boxen have a way of sensing when they lose link to dhcp, re-link, and then notify your primary dns of the new NAT addresses.
3. If you're really clever, use one of the boxen as a gateway/firewall, put the others behind it, and then you can have security AND simplify step 2 in one stroke. Oh yes, and you have the pride of saying you have a private subnet behind yet another private subnet.
Don't forget the power, the UPS, and the monitoring equipment. If you really want to keep tabs, get one of those fancy swivelling x10 cameras to keep a 360 degree view of the surroundings, along with some kind of warning/defense system to protect the equipment against would-be thieves.