This recent press release clearly shows SCO really loves OSS. Without they could not have a major new release of the their OS - the hypocritical bastards...
Other enhancements to the SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 update include:
Mozilla Web browser 1.6 adds new features including tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, and PDF support
While google may be trying, I know Overture (aka Yahoo) makes a half hearted attempt to protect its customers. Awhile back I had an interesting conversation with them concerning their click protection such as it is.
In a conclusion Overture admits they have no mechanism to test your own url's (unlike Google's adwords program) and first recommends "cutting and pasting" the url of your competetors into the location field. However when it is pointed out this is inadequate they back track and then recommend to "click once" and then bookmark it. Yeah right!
There a very legitimate reasons to click on competitor ads as a way to see what they are offering, the methods used (ie are they link to specific product pages or predefined search string, etc. I believe that their failure to do so is gross negligence at best and deceptive and fraudulent at worst.
The claim to be looking at "20 to 50 different data point" but I content they are not trying very hard.
I have written a tiny perl script to nuke the duplicates in my catch-all mailboxes and it has cut out 90% of the catch-all spam. In this day, a catch-all mail box to a domain that has been around a awhile will recieve between 5 to 7k e-mails per day (at least mine do) however the majority are shutgun style spam with same e-mail addressed to a dozen or so random names.
Slashdot says: "and, with the north pole's magnetic field at about 10-15 percent it's strength of 150 years ago"
The fine article says: "The field's strength has waned 10 to 15 percent"
Forget correct spelling and grammer at least try to get the facts straight.
Re:Scalability and Maintainability go hand in hand
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but it uses letters and numbers and some special characters for identifiers and other stuff.
Yes $ @ and % are used to distinguish the three data types in perl. Is that a disadvantage or advantage? I do prefer this method over some contrived data naming scheme like hungarian notation. I think this enhance readability.
As far as the use of numbers in identifiers the only use I know of is the $1,$2,etc in the last regexp match. Again I do not see that as a confusing or maintenance issue just a protocol.
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Perl can become unmaintainable on a small project
What unique attributes of perl do you believe contribute to your claim that perl "can become unmaintainable on a small project"?
I regularly program in C and I would say that C has numerous issues that make readability and maintainability in the large but you rarely see anyone heap this scorn on C.
The problem is that websites are test for IE only and are often broke with other browsers. Not because they are using some nifty (non-standard) feature of IE but just because the web developers only test IE.
I think this will change when non-IE browsers start ruling a larger percentage in the server logs and too many customer complain. I always take the time to send a nice e-mail to websites that are broke with Mozilla.
Companies need know that they are limiting their customer base and are losing sales.
Just yesterday I was signing up for a dedicated server at a vendor and their webpage was not working correctly, I brought up IE and worked fine. Ticked - I left and signed up with the competition (servermatrix).
Just yesterday there was a WSJ (printed version) article describing a trend where high-end tax dodge specialist are patenting particular and specific tax strategies taylored for wealthy clients!
What is good about this is that we are now entering into the ludacris stage of the current fashion of patenting everything that walks - which means reform will be close at hand - or at least I hope.
My wife's ecommerce store has a shopping cart that gives 5% discount if the customer just happens to be using a Mozilla browser. Maybe she should apply for a patent will she still can...
Thanks for joining and sharing this information which is timely for me since I spent the entire morning cleaning up my kids computer.
One other site I have found useful is here that gives a good run down on some of the unidentified tasks in your task list. The site appears to be a bit dated as some of the newer spyware programs are not listed. The new trend appears to be that spyware forks its own processes which they randomly name so that you cannot track the file on google or even your disk. Apparently some spyware will copy and rename itself, launch the new file and then erase the file. Bastards!!!
Being a Unix guy I find it troubling that you cannot find which dll's are loaded and what program is referenceing them. I often find that I cannot delete a @#$# piece spyware because it has a dll loaded. I guess admin is not root on Windows.
Does anyone know of way to find the file path for a loaded task in the task list. This seems like an essential piece of information.
When you press people on perl and readability they usually quote some exacerbating regular expression. Reg exp are often used in perl since they are are handy and built in. And yes, reg exp tend to be a little cryptic. However taking a little time to figure out something like
$str =~/(.*?)\&(\w+)\((.*?)\)/gis
is a lot easier than understand the 100 lines of code that would be required to accomplish the same task if you where not using a reg exp.
I would be very interested in hearing what you think PHP provides that enhances readablity over perl.
I once worked with a guy who wrote the O/S for a MilSpec computer (Rolm 64) that was used in ICBM's.
He commented that the worst place to be in the event of a nuclear exchange was at Lat 0, Long 0 because if something went wrong the memory overlays (kludge for keeping code within a 64k addressable space) the missles would try to find their way here and activities such as this would not be recommended.
It is nice to meet a compassionate individual here on slashdot but keep in mind how many aggregate "irreplaceable years of life" this scumbag cost others in filling up people's inbox with junk or having to spend time setting up filters, etc. !
Sounds like a business plan to me (at least any good business model would count on at least three from your list, especially the first three). Don't forget to add:
If we were to rate McBride in SCO units then we would have to extend the scale beyond what can be obtained thru natural means into the extract hot range to properly characterize his FUD abilities.
The claims are a case study why software patents should never be allowed.
I am not trained in reading patentease but Patent 5,226,161 sounds a lot like Perl's tie feature where you can "link" a variable to a "data object" such as a file, database, serial port, shared memory, etc. I am sure prior art will crush this claim.
if you are running a business there is no way you would be so stupid as to turn away 90+% of your customers at the door simply because you don't like the way they are dressed
You got that right. However, this hot website rewards mozilla users.
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Other enhancements to the SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 update include:
Mozilla Web browser 1.6 adds new features including tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, and PDF support
User-Level threads increases application availability
Squid Web Proxy Cache 2.5STABLE5 with expanded authentication schemes, optimizes searching, SSL gatewaying, and more
DVD/CD recording and enhanced printer support
Perl 5.8.4
Supplemental graphics, Web and X11 libraries
Apache HTTP Server 1.3.31
OpenSSH 3.8p1
BIND 8.4.4
No doubt I am sure the elf's are from MIT.
For anyone who cares I wrote up my experiences with Overture's click protection here
While google may be trying, I know Overture (aka Yahoo) makes a half hearted attempt to protect its customers. Awhile back I had an interesting conversation with them concerning their click protection such as it is.
In a conclusion Overture admits they have no mechanism to test your own url's (unlike Google's adwords program) and first recommends "cutting and pasting" the url of your competetors into the location field. However when it is pointed out this is inadequate they back track and then recommend to "click once" and then bookmark it. Yeah right!
There a very legitimate reasons to click on competitor ads as a way to see what they are offering, the methods used (ie are they link to specific product pages or predefined search string, etc. I believe that their failure to do so is gross negligence at best and deceptive and fraudulent at worst.
The claim to be looking at "20 to 50 different data point" but I content they are not trying very hard.
I have written a tiny perl script to nuke the duplicates in my catch-all mailboxes and it has cut out 90% of the catch-all spam. In this day, a catch-all mail box to a domain that has been around a awhile will recieve between 5 to 7k e-mails per day (at least mine do) however the majority are shutgun style spam with same e-mail addressed to a dozen or so random names.
"What tools do you use that make your admin responsibilities easier or more automated on the Linux platform"
Perl is your friend
Slashdot says:
"and, with the north pole's magnetic field at about 10-15 percent it's strength of 150 years ago"
The fine article says:
"The field's strength has waned 10 to 15 percent"
Forget correct spelling and grammer at least try to get the facts straight.
but it uses letters and numbers and some special characters for identifiers and other stuff.
Yes $ @ and % are used to distinguish the three data types in perl. Is that a disadvantage or advantage? I do prefer this method over some contrived data naming scheme like hungarian notation. I think this enhance readability.
As far as the use of numbers in identifiers the only use I know of is the $1,$2,etc in the last regexp match. Again I do not see that as a confusing or maintenance issue just a protocol.
Perl can become unmaintainable on a small project
What unique attributes of perl do you believe contribute to your claim that perl "can become unmaintainable on a small project"?
I regularly program in C and I would say that C has numerous issues that make readability and maintainability in the large but you rarely see anyone heap this scorn on C.
The problem is that websites are test for IE only and are often broke with other browsers. Not because they are using some nifty (non-standard) feature of IE but just because the web developers only test IE.
I think this will change when non-IE browsers start ruling a larger percentage in the server logs and too many customer complain. I always take the time to send a nice e-mail to websites that are broke with Mozilla.
Companies need know that they are limiting their customer base and are losing sales.
Just yesterday I was signing up for a dedicated server at a vendor and their webpage was not working correctly, I brought up IE and worked fine. Ticked - I left and signed up with the competition (servermatrix).
Just yesterday there was a WSJ (printed version) article describing a trend where high-end tax dodge specialist are patenting particular and specific tax strategies taylored for wealthy clients!
What is good about this is that we are now entering into the ludacris stage of the current fashion of patenting everything that walks - which means reform will be close at hand - or at least I hope.
My wife's ecommerce store has a shopping cart that gives 5% discount if the customer just happens to be using a Mozilla browser. Maybe she should apply for a patent will she still can...
1. Magnosphere
2. Atmosphere
3. h2o
4. ???
5 Profit
Thanks for joining and sharing this information which is timely for me since I spent the entire morning cleaning up my kids computer.
One other site I have found useful is here that gives a good run down on some of the unidentified tasks in your task list. The site appears to be a bit dated as some of the newer spyware programs are not listed. The new trend appears to be that spyware forks its own processes which they randomly name so that you cannot track the file on google or even your disk. Apparently some spyware will copy and rename itself, launch the new file and then erase the file. Bastards!!!
Being a Unix guy I find it troubling that you cannot find which dll's are loaded and what program is referenceing them. I often find that I cannot delete a @#$# piece spyware because it has a dll loaded. I guess admin is not root on Windows.
Does anyone know of way to find the file path for a loaded task in the task list. This seems like an essential piece of information.
And would probably increase you lines of code to 100 :(.
But good quick hack nonetheless.
When you press people on perl and readability they usually quote some exacerbating regular expression. Reg exp are often used in perl since they are are handy and built in. And yes, reg exp tend to be a little cryptic. However taking a little time to figure out something like
/(.*?)\&(\w+)\((.*?)\)/gis
$str =~
is a lot easier than understand the 100 lines of code that would be required to accomplish the same task if you where not using a reg exp.
I would be very interested in hearing what you think PHP provides that enhances readablity over perl.
I once worked with a guy who wrote the O/S for a MilSpec computer (Rolm 64) that was used in ICBM's.
He commented that the worst place to be in the event of a nuclear exchange was at Lat 0, Long 0 because if something went wrong the memory overlays (kludge for keeping code within a 64k addressable space) the missles would try to find their way here and activities such as this would not be recommended.
Gmail is Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer.
he's a person with irreplaceable years of life
It is nice to meet a compassionate individual here on slashdot but keep in mind how many aggregate "irreplaceable years of life" this scumbag cost others in filling up people's inbox with junk or having to spend time setting up filters, etc. !
????
Profit
hmmm
If we were to rate McBride in SCO units then we would have to extend the scale beyond what can be obtained thru natural means into the extract hot range to properly characterize his FUD abilities.
The claims are a case study why software patents should never be allowed.
I am not trained in reading patentease but Patent 5,226,161 sounds a lot like Perl's tie feature where you can "link" a variable to a "data object" such as a file, database, serial port, shared memory, etc. I am sure prior art will crush this claim.
I could really improve my golf score with one of those baby's! Every shot is a hole in one - a really big hole....
I know they look for IP address. Overture claims they examine 40 different connection parameters.
Perhaps in India people are cheaper than a script sufficeintly sophisticated to slip thru the "Click Protection" of PPC advertisers.
Mind you Overtures' Click Protection leaves a lot to desired.
if you are running a business there is no way you would be so stupid as to turn away 90+% of your customers at the door simply because you don't like the way they are dressed
You got that right. However, this hot website rewards mozilla users.