While white text on black background might be better for the monitor, I've heard (and believe it based on my own observations) that black text on white background is easier for your eyes. Or at least, is easier for your eyes to focus on.
It has to do with the amount of light entering your eye. With a white background there is more light entering your eye, so your iris is more closed. This allows your lens to do a better job if focusing the light on the retina (as in photography, smaller apertures give sharper images and more depth of field).
Jobs offered Xerox the opportunity to invest $1 million in Apple by buying 100,000 shares at $10 each. Apple was about to go public and the company was already the number one producer of home computers and had the most advanced home units in the world. Xerox jumped at the chance and within a year these shares split into 800,000 shares worth $17.6 million when Apple went public.
You don't understand what the Red Cross does in these situations. They give victims money to pay for hotels rooms, necessities, etc. And the RC also sets up food lines at the relocation sites. All of this takes money to do.
I'm assuming here that Apple's underlying UNIX has available the most popular shells, and all the command-line utilities. Correct me if I'm wrong. Hmm, I'll need compilers too.
In libraries the problem is especially accute. If you make a mistake in a well used library it could effect hundreds of pieces of software, as we've seen here.
Of course the flip side of this is, when you fix the library you fix all the apps (that aren't statically linked) as well.
Age of the software should make no difference. The problem in this particular case was that the system could only handle 32,000 transactions a month (the programmer obviously used the wrong data type). That could be a problem with software of any age. Age had nothing to do with it failing.
So, when (if) you write software, you consider all the things that could change in 20 years and make sure it can handle them? 20 years ago, the difference in storage use between 'signed short' and 'signed long' (I don't remember the Fortran names for them) may have been enough to make the difference between having enough and running out of memory on the machines of that time.
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Here's a reference that discusses the pros and cons for black/white vs white/black.
It has to do with the amount of light entering your eye. With a white background there is more light entering your eye, so your iris is more closed. This allows your lens to do a better job if focusing the light on the retina (as in photography, smaller apertures give sharper images and more depth of field).
What is the styptic pencil, then?
You mean like this?
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And another reference:
Pick something no one else likes to do and get good at it.
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You don't understand what the Red Cross does in these situations. They give victims money to pay for hotels rooms, necessities, etc. And the RC also sets up food lines at the relocation sites. All of this takes money to do.
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That's because /. is the LSD test.
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Hmm. Let's see:
Shells.. yep.Compiler... check!Utilities? You'll have to take my word that /usr/bin is well stocked.
Anything else?
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The CERT bulletin I looked at was old (why don't they post the date at the top of the bulletin!).
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According to the CERT bulletin, zlib 1.2.2, released in Oct 2004, fixes this issue. Is this really patched or not?
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Assume a spherical patient in a vacuum...
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My Mac doesn't have a floppy drive!
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So, when (if) you write software, you consider all the things that could change in 20 years and make sure it can handle them? 20 years ago, the difference in storage use between 'signed short' and 'signed long' (I don't remember the Fortran names for them) may have been enough to make the difference between having enough and running out of memory on the machines of that time.
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It's not a vulnerability, it's a feature!
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Users.
You do know that ICMP is more than just pings, right?
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-tcp m-icmp-attacks-03.txt
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