I'm a.net developer, so flame me if you will, but "platform independence" in the context of.net means that you can write in any "programming platform" that has a.net port, and be assured that your code will run... assuming the port isn't junk of course.
Wouldn't ya know, there's even a perl port for.net. Who woulda thought?
Did you happen to read the text above the pictures? Let me save you the trip...
...It is inside the houses where the real danger lies. One must be especially careful in houses with open windows facing the Atomic Power Plant....Taking such a walk with no special radiation detecting device is like walking through a minefiled wearing snowshoes
The "grass growing green" means nothing in particular, just a "saying," however, it should also be noted that grass also grows on land-fills too. How liveable is that?
Besides, Just because humans can't live there without getting cancer doesn't mean that other life forms aren't able to is a piss-poor arguement. I don't see many animals hanging-out in any of those pictures. Did you read the rest of the site, where the "tourist" describes how quiet it is there? As in, not even birds chirping?
You have one hell of a way of making your point... umm... I think... ???
People don't like nuclear power because of incidents like three mile island and Chernobly,yet more damage is done each year by the cumulitive effects of coal/gas and oil plants.
Oh really? So, I guess the grass is growing really green over at Chernobyl these days, heh? Where the hell did you pull this out of? Actually, don't answer that... I don't want to know.
Lets be clear about something: yes, nuclear power is most likely the energy source for the future. Do not forget however, the thousands of radioactive waste pools that are sitting about the world waiting for someone's backyard. Also, using Chernobyl as a "yeah, well, Chernobyl, ya know..." type of segue is plain-stupid for any pro-nuclear arguement. Chernobyl is a perfect example of an "accident," and accidents do happen. Yes, there were large factors involved like the "big test" and "stressed-out" plant managers, but they though they had it all under control. So, accidents do happen. Knowing that, how big do you want to let the accidents be? Nuclear? I'll stick with the current advances in hyrdogren cells and things to that nature. Controlled bomb-blasts just frighten me a little too much. For all you science-techies who are going to correct that: take a look at the Chernobyl plant pictures... looks like a bomb went off to me.
As if it could've made a bit of a difference anyway. Quite frankly, accoring to some reports, "the man," had spent 40% of his time in office up until that point ON VACATION! I clearly remember the scene of "the man" being notified of the attacks while reading a book to a classroom full of children, and seeing the bewildered look upon his face that seemed to last an eternity. That look spoke of "No shit!?," and "Oh shit!" at the same time stuck home with me big-time! I get that same look upon my face when I get caught choking the chicken. So I know how it feels... but my chicken-choking never cost 3000 lives! They, "the neo-cronies," KNEW about Bin Laden, they KNEW he was capable, they KNEW had done it before (1993 trade center bombing, 1995 Murrah building bombing - yes that was al qaida inspired too - Terri Nichols is linked to abbu sayef in the phillipines), and they knew of Tanzania, and that other place that I can't think of)! What more does it take?! We needed more intelligence in the middle east, particularly those in Bin Laden's circle. We didn't have it, never did, probably never will. So, since 1993 (and probably long before), we/they knew he hated us, knew he was attacking us, knew he was capable of some really bad shit, and we/they did nothing to stop him - even after we could've stopped him DEAD dozens of times (the Sudan had him and offered him to us on a plate, damnit, and Tora-Bora, of course) Tora-Bora was a humongous blow-job... "let's just leave Bin Laden to the Northern Alliance... they'll get him!" Yeah... unless Bin Laden just happens to be FRIENDS with all of them... what a joke...
So... with all that said... the intelligence doc presented here... what difference could it have made after all this... formatted nicely, or not!?
Maybe they'll bring back HomeSite. Before Macromedia swallowed Allaire and killed it, HomeSite was THE editor to use in my opinion. Yes, there's UltraEdit, which I use frequently. But for us "Hand-Coders," HomeSite was a gift from above. I still use it, even though the version I am using is the newest, and even that is 3 years old. It would be nice to see this product revived!
Quoting the article... "Changes to the data would require both an intimate knowledge of the NTFS, FAT and Registry hive formats, plus the ability to change data structures such that they hide the rootkit, but do not cause inconsistent or invalid structures or side-effect discrepancies that would be flagged by RootkitRevealer..."
It's just a matter of time. I don't see how this can be defeated, just like anything else in the Windows world.
I can only think of one, Elizabeth Hurley... and damn is she fine. So, to correct this post, it should read "The UK is known for downloading the most TV shows, and for a having a beautiful woman, Miss Elizabeth Hurley." May God bless her.
The bad side of this to me is clearly evident - robots that could possibly reproduce out of control. Besides, how does one convince a robot to visit a planned-parenthood meeting?
This was Giant anti-spyware, which if I remember correctly, bested the other leading anti-spyware tools in a review done by computer shopper.
Go on/.'ers, lets hear how computer shopper is biased and all.
Frankly, I had giant anti-spyware installed and running, and it was the only thing that did the job of removing spyware efficiently, well above ad-aware and spybot s&d. When the MS beta came out, I switched to that immediately, and am now enjoying the same great product free-of-charge.
Oh, ok... well if you're not man enough to do it, I'll lower the thread myself:
First, buying more RAM is supposed to be an acceptable solution for an enterprise app? What cracker-jack box did you get that from? What happened to scalability? Face it, C# is faster for just about any real app. Sure, there are plenty of tests and sims that argue the point either way. Do some thinking Mr. Programmer... how many people build their 3d engines in Java? While that may seem to be a moot point to some, it speaks legends to me. Java isn't used in a lot of cases, because it is friggin slooooow... unless of course, like you said, just get more ram. In this case, we're not talking 3d engines, but it just goes to show, again, that Java is friggin slooow.
Also, if "development lifecycle" is a buzz-word to you, then you're not a programmer, instead, you're just a hack. FYI, if you don't follow development life-cycles, then you wind up with unmaintainable apps, regardless of platform. That is, unless of course your app is just 11 lines of PERL.;)
I write Java, and C#, and even VB. Of all of them, I prefer C#. But doesn't it seem funny to you that even VB.NET beats the crap out of Java? I know I'll get fragged for that comment, but do a simple hello-world with both VB.NET and Java. I have, and the results didn't shock me at all.
Yeah, Development Life-Cycles, like when you start a project, and you finish it, and deploy it, and modify it, and deploy it again. Get it? It's a good idea to know what all your goals are when you're determing platform. This has nothing to do with my liking of.NET over Java.
First, asking a web-based community like/. for opinions about platform is just a plain waste of time... and of course that's why I have to respond and waste my own time.
For all you Java-heads out there bashing.NET, take a good look at all of the wonderfully-slow Java apps that take 3x as long to develop and suck because the JVM takes up half of any machines RAM just to get rolling. Acceptable on a server - maybe. On a desktop? No.
If it were up to me, I would centralize this app using web services making it possible to use whatever the f you want on the server, and then go with.NET for the desktop apps. If you were to use MS on the server, you could even use.NET remoting.
My final opinion: you're screwed if you're asking this community for platform decisions. Take some CS courses - preferably some that deal with development life-cycles.
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As a "Lone Coder," I am always working for someone else. Sure, I have my own ideas and develop some nifty things for others to download, but to keep my finances intact, I have to sell my skills. I have 2 sales people, but as far as actual production, I'm it.
The patent-feeding-frenzy doesn't scare me, as its my clients who will have to deal with any problems that arise from such debates. They tell me what to do, and I do it. Its there ideas, and in the end the products I produce are usually work made for hire.
This show has been my favorite for about a year now. Before I started really watching it, I would be switching through the channels when all of a sudden I would see Teal'c with Apophis's emblem blazened upon his head and say to myself "how ridiculous is that?" Then I started watching it just to see what that emblem was all about. The next thing I knew, I was a regular.
Its funny how when I ever I use Windows Update to update my office PCs, Microsoft tells me how urgent it is to install SP2. Yet, all I hear is how much of a mistake it is to install. Normally, there are some added features touted or some new functionality previously not present. I have heard nothing about the new features, except from Microsoft. I won't be installing SP2 anytime soon!
The.NET framework allows programmers to do more in less time. While it may be a Microsoft technology, it is certainly quite capable.
XP is also fairly stable. Almost 2 years running now, no crashes, no glitches, no BS.
This article doesn't surprise me. In fact, I am now going to show this to all my linux-high friends. I like linux too, don't get me wrong. The windows-bashing won't end here, I believe, but this achievement proves what can be done. The fact that they chose Windows over an open-source platform says alot by itself.
You need to run windows update regardless of whether or not you actually use IE or not. Otherwise, you definately stand to be compromised. This is like, common knowledge...
Not patching is just plain stupid. You are better off patching and not running anti-virus, then you are running anti-virus and not patching. I can't believe that there is even a dispute about this. Quite frankly, MS is telling you "your windows install is unsecure w/o this," and your reply is "patching will screw up my system." Wassup with that?
NAT protects you provided that it is not software NAT'ng. Even if it is hardware NAT, if your firmware is outdated, you could be vulnerable there too (another patch).
Finally, you cannot "replace" IE. You can simply elect not to use it, but you can't get rid of it. The shdocvw.dll will still be there, vulnerable as always, without a patch.
Long story short: the horror stories about patching are far-fetched. Those that do encounter problems are those that get f*!#@d by running a patch on a production server or something. In that case, they should have tried the patch on their dev server 1st.
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They can lay-off that entire country...
We now live in a world where 2/3 people live in a comfort-zone, where we wait for other inventions to come along to make things even easier for us.
Think about why technology spurred over the past few hundred years. It was all necessity. What's necessary now...?
I'm a .net developer, so flame me if you will, but "platform independence" in the context of .net means that you can write in any "programming platform" that has a .net port, and be assured that your code will run... assuming the port isn't junk of course.
.net. Who woulda thought?
Wouldn't ya know, there's even a perl port for
OK, I'll get off of Chernobyl... how about 3-Mile Island?
I know... any arguement made against nuclear power can be shot down...
when your child comes out with 3 heads and 2 toes, you'll be the kind of person who wonders why...
The "grass growing green" means nothing in particular, just a "saying," however, it should also be noted that grass also grows on land-fills too. How liveable is that?
Besides, Just because humans can't live there without getting cancer doesn't mean that other life forms aren't able to is a piss-poor arguement. I don't see many animals hanging-out in any of those pictures. Did you read the rest of the site, where the "tourist" describes how quiet it is there? As in, not even birds chirping?
You have one hell of a way of making your point... umm... I think... ???
Oh really? So, I guess the grass is growing really green over at Chernobyl these days, heh? Where the hell did you pull this out of? Actually, don't answer that... I don't want to know.
Lets be clear about something: yes, nuclear power is most likely the energy source for the future. Do not forget however, the thousands of radioactive waste pools that are sitting about the world waiting for someone's backyard. Also, using Chernobyl as a "yeah, well, Chernobyl, ya know..." type of segue is plain-stupid for any pro-nuclear arguement. Chernobyl is a perfect example of an "accident," and accidents do happen. Yes, there were large factors involved like the "big test" and "stressed-out" plant managers, but they though they had it all under control. So, accidents do happen. Knowing that, how big do you want to let the accidents be? Nuclear? I'll stick with the current advances in hyrdogren cells and things to that nature. Controlled bomb-blasts just frighten me a little too much. For all you science-techies who are going to correct that: take a look at the Chernobyl plant pictures... looks like a bomb went off to me.
As if it could've made a bit of a difference anyway. Quite frankly, accoring to some reports, "the man," had spent 40% of his time in office up until that point ON VACATION!
I clearly remember the scene of "the man" being notified of the attacks while reading a book to a classroom full of children, and seeing the bewildered look upon his face that seemed to last an eternity. That look spoke of "No shit!?," and "Oh shit!" at the same time stuck home with me big-time!
I get that same look upon my face when I get caught choking the chicken. So I know how it feels... but my chicken-choking never cost 3000 lives!
They, "the neo-cronies," KNEW about Bin Laden, they KNEW he was capable, they KNEW had done it before (1993 trade center bombing, 1995 Murrah building bombing - yes that was al qaida inspired too - Terri Nichols is linked to abbu sayef in the phillipines), and they knew of Tanzania, and that other place that I can't think of)! What more does it take?!
We needed more intelligence in the middle east, particularly those in Bin Laden's circle. We didn't have it, never did, probably never will. So, since 1993 (and probably long before), we/they knew he hated us, knew he was attacking us, knew he was capable of some really bad shit, and we/they did nothing to stop him - even after we could've stopped him DEAD dozens of times (the Sudan had him and offered him to us on a plate, damnit, and Tora-Bora, of course) Tora-Bora was a humongous blow-job... "let's just leave Bin Laden to the Northern Alliance... they'll get him!" Yeah... unless Bin Laden just happens to be FRIENDS with all of them... what a joke... So... with all that said... the intelligence doc presented here... what difference could it have made after all this... formatted nicely, or not!?
Maybe they'll bring back HomeSite. Before Macromedia swallowed Allaire and killed it, HomeSite was THE editor to use in my opinion. Yes, there's UltraEdit, which I use frequently. But for us "Hand-Coders," HomeSite was a gift from above. I still use it, even though the version I am using is the newest, and even that is 3 years old. It would be nice to see this product revived!
Quoting the article... "Changes to the data would require both an intimate knowledge of the NTFS, FAT and Registry hive formats, plus the ability to change data structures such that they hide the rootkit, but do not cause inconsistent or invalid structures or side-effect discrepancies that would be flagged by RootkitRevealer..."
It's just a matter of time. I don't see how this can be defeated, just like anything else in the Windows world.
Why did KMart, NetZero, and Altavista stop offering free internet? Was it because it wasn't profitable? Nah... couldn't be that...
I can only think of one, Elizabeth Hurley... and damn is she fine. So, to correct this post, it should read "The UK is known for downloading the most TV shows, and for a having a beautiful woman, Miss Elizabeth Hurley." May God bless her.
The bad side of this to me is clearly evident - robots that could possibly reproduce out of control. Besides, how does one convince a robot to visit a planned-parenthood meeting?
This was Giant anti-spyware, which if I remember correctly, bested the other leading anti-spyware tools in a review done by computer shopper.
/.'ers, lets hear how computer shopper is biased and all.
Go on
Frankly, I had giant anti-spyware installed and running, and it was the only thing that did the job of removing spyware efficiently, well above ad-aware and spybot s&d. When the MS beta came out, I switched to that immediately, and am now enjoying the same great product free-of-charge.
I'm switching to IE, a browser made by a company who cares about ME.
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Holy sh!@at, first post!
Oh, ok... well if you're not man enough to do it, I'll lower the thread myself: First, buying more RAM is supposed to be an acceptable solution for an enterprise app? What cracker-jack box did you get that from? What happened to scalability? Face it, C# is faster for just about any real app. Sure, there are plenty of tests and sims that argue the point either way. Do some thinking Mr. Programmer... how many people build their 3d engines in Java? While that may seem to be a moot point to some, it speaks legends to me. Java isn't used in a lot of cases, because it is friggin slooooow... unless of course, like you said, just get more ram. In this case, we're not talking 3d engines, but it just goes to show, again, that Java is friggin slooow. Also, if "development lifecycle" is a buzz-word to you, then you're not a programmer, instead, you're just a hack. FYI, if you don't follow development life-cycles, then you wind up with unmaintainable apps, regardless of platform. That is, unless of course your app is just 11 lines of PERL. ;)
I write Java, and C#, and even VB. Of all of them, I prefer C#. But doesn't it seem funny to you that even VB.NET beats the crap out of Java? I know I'll get fragged for that comment, but do a simple hello-world with both VB.NET and Java. I have, and the results didn't shock me at all.
Yeah, Development Life-Cycles, like when you start a project, and you finish it, and deploy it, and modify it, and deploy it again. Get it? It's a good idea to know what all your goals are when you're determing platform. This has nothing to do with my liking of .NET over Java.
For the record though, I am an angry MS nut...
First, asking a web-based community like /. for opinions about platform is just a plain waste of time... and of course that's why I have to respond and waste my own time.
For all you Java-heads out there bashing .NET, take a good look at all of the wonderfully-slow Java apps that take 3x as long to develop and suck because the JVM takes up half of any machines RAM just to get rolling. Acceptable on a server - maybe. On a desktop? No.
If it were up to me, I would centralize this app using web services making it possible to use whatever the f you want on the server, and then go with .NET for the desktop apps. If you were to use MS on the server, you could even use .NET remoting.
My final opinion: you're screwed if you're asking this community for platform decisions. Take some CS courses - preferably some that deal with development life-cycles.
Nice, thanks moderator-from-hell-from-last-night.
As a "Lone Coder," I am always working for someone else. Sure, I have my own ideas and develop some nifty things for others to download, but to keep my finances intact, I have to sell my skills. I have 2 sales people, but as far as actual production, I'm it.
The patent-feeding-frenzy doesn't scare me, as its my clients who will have to deal with any problems that arise from such debates. They tell me what to do, and I do it. Its there ideas, and in the end the products I produce are usually work made for hire.
The lone coder will always live on!
This show has been my favorite for about a year now. Before I started really watching it, I would be switching through the channels when all of a sudden I would see Teal'c with Apophis's emblem blazened upon his head and say to myself "how ridiculous is that?" Then I started watching it just to see what that emblem was all about. The next thing I knew, I was a regular.
There is nothing quite like "Stargate Mondays!"
Its funny how when I ever I use Windows Update to update my office PCs, Microsoft tells me how urgent it is to install SP2. Yet, all I hear is how much of a mistake it is to install. Normally, there are some added features touted or some new functionality previously not present. I have heard nothing about the new features, except from Microsoft. I won't be installing SP2 anytime soon!
The .NET framework allows programmers to do more in less time. While it may be a Microsoft technology, it is certainly quite capable.
XP is also fairly stable. Almost 2 years running now, no crashes, no glitches, no BS.
This article doesn't surprise me. In fact, I am now going to show this to all my linux-high friends. I like linux too, don't get me wrong. The windows-bashing won't end here, I believe, but this achievement proves what can be done. The fact that they chose Windows over an open-source platform says alot by itself.
You need to run windows update regardless of whether or not you actually use IE or not. Otherwise, you definately stand to be compromised. This is like, common knowledge...
Not patching is just plain stupid. You are better off patching and not running anti-virus, then you are running anti-virus and not patching. I can't believe that there is even a dispute about this. Quite frankly, MS is telling you "your windows install is unsecure w/o this," and your reply is "patching will screw up my system." Wassup with that?
NAT protects you provided that it is not software NAT'ng. Even if it is hardware NAT, if your firmware is outdated, you could be vulnerable there too (another patch).
Finally, you cannot "replace" IE. You can simply elect not to use it, but you can't get rid of it. The shdocvw.dll will still be there, vulnerable as always, without a patch.
Long story short: the horror stories about patching are far-fetched. Those that do encounter problems are those that get f*!#@d by running a patch on a production server or something. In that case, they should have tried the patch on their dev server 1st.