I'd tell the professor to 'sniff my packets' for sure!
If he really wanted to teach them the art of secure network recon, he should make the assignment 'syphon our network without being detected'. *of coarse, that one would probably be too easy, hence the un-named university. =p
Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.
Agent Smith: Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.
Agent Smith: Never send a human to do a machine's job.
and create your own centralized codebase '/usr/lib/php', thus allowing you to share the same OO code throughout all of your projects/websites on that system.
ie: @require_once 'MyClass.php';
A very efficient approach to managing code and developing web applications is to use a staging (development/QA/production) server environment to thoroughly test your code, and a CVS Repository to efficiently manage your code.
A bit of discipline, patience, and common sense is also required. =)
Simply using firefox does not make users 'more advanced'.
Just because you prefer DIV over TABLE does not make you a 'more advanced' HTML/CSS Programmer, it actually proves your lack of experience in the real-world.
Introducing asynchronous functionality into your web page does not make it 'more advanced', it is just an 'alternative' design pattern.
AJAX is simply a design pattern people.
Whoever made the site 'AJAXDesignPatterns.com', has no clue what they are talking about.
1st off, you're a tool if you use the MS Windows OS.
2nd off, you're ignorant for trusting Google (no matter what OS you choose), and simply retarded for WILLINGLY installing/using their desktop search spyware (err, software).
I use google, and I am well aware of what I should and should not allow them to record. You have to assume that ANYTHING you do on google (or any other website for that matter) is recorded, being sniffed, or monitored by who knows!?
Revealing personal information, pictures, anything on a public web site, is a common-sense 'no-no'.
Don't blame google for their transition into the darkside, blame yourself! =/
Chances are, anything you try to say, no matter how hard you try, will not matter to them.
They are of the 'spoonfed' corporate-mindset type, and will not listen to you, as you are on the bottom of the ladder as they see it, or a 'maverick' as I've been deemed. lol =p
I am suffering in a similar situation, and currently looking for a new job, and I suggest you do the same, as it will never get better, unless you become the manager.
Linux has made many independent contractors and small businesses very successful, not to mention governments, NASA, and big corporations like Google.
I know this move may sound like career-suicide, but if your boss wishes to flush money down the drain in software licenses (generally with the excuse of 'vendor support'), simply because he reads to much cnet or whatever, then you should perhaps consider going above his head (if possible), for 'the (financial) sake of the entire company/organization.
Shell Scripting is for people who like (and know how to use) *NIX.
Who needs packages and 'patches' when you can automate the installation/update across 12931293789321728 machines from the execution of 1 simple (hand-coded) shell script, using NFS and rsh.
In the case, Web Programming 'Standards' or 'Interpriters'?
Until the Interpriters that are built in to web browsers can interprit compliant 'standards-based' code correctly, then there really is no need to try to be 100% compliant w/ the W3C.
In the war of TABLES vs. DIV+CSS, I have to say that TABLES win.
I do agree that DIV+CSS is nicer, cleaner, and easier to code... but, that means nothing to me if my site that generates 1,000,000 hits/day, is not compliant w/ the browsers that the audience is using.
Say 2% of those 1,000,000 users use a browser that does not properly render DIV+CSS *ie 4/5 etc*, then you have just made a bad impression on 20,000 users, who most likely won't return to your web site.
If you could care less about those 20,000 users, then fine, but if you depend on their hits to pay your bills, then you'll understand what I'm saying.
From my experience, most IT (development) staff sit quietly, trying not to 'rock the boat', doing whatever they can to secure their jobs (generally writing un-maintainable code, or supressing knowledge transfers), and overall being as minimally productive as possible.
Structure, Processes, Life-Cycles, and Oversight help make a simple 2 minute task drag out into weeks, and sometimes months (if not years).
Smaller IT shops are generally far more productive, albeit under a lot more pressure to produce results.
Non-Profit, Education, and Government IT Dept.'s are generally run the worst, and least productive.
Consuming a large volume of alcohol is proven to relieve pain, which makes it an ideal distributable product for routy college football and spanish soccer fans, especially those whose adrenaline causes them to beat eachothers heads into a bloody pulp.
Relying on an author's honesty is like relying on a Politician's Honesty.
This just proves my point about the bible! =p
he can launch nuclear missiles by whistling?? LOL
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"Mitnick was arrested in 1995 by the FBI for hacking. He served five years in prison, including eight months in solitary confinement after it was alleged that he could launch nuclear missiles by whistling into a telephone."
LOL
that's about as bad as the whole Lance Armstrong is god BS.
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If you read the actual results of the study, you will see that it doesn't even mention MySQL.
http://scan.coverity.com/
You will also notice that PERL and Python are far less defective.
I really hate the way mainstream tech news/fud sites spin these buzzword-compliant mis-informing articles.
You'll thank him later (when you realize what this will prevent from happening).
I'll thank him now...
Thanks! =p
I'd tell the professor to 'sniff my packets' for sure!
If he really wanted to teach them the art of secure network recon, he should make the assignment 'syphon our network without being detected'. *of coarse, that one would probably be too easy, hence the un-named university. =p
All students should be required to carry a [insert.biggest.lobbyist.laptop.manufacturer.name. here] Laptop...
Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.
Agent Smith: Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.
Agent Smith: Never send a human to do a machine's job.
/me gives them some ex-lax...
What would Awwwwnold say about this?
is a simple and easy way for consumers to have their identities stolen.
Another 'revolution' (if you call it that) is the Anti-Virus/Spyware Market. Without windows, we sure wouldn't need one.
revolutionize d33z!
and create your own centralized codebase '/usr/lib/php', thus allowing you to share the same OO code throughout all of your projects/websites on that system.
ie: @require_once 'MyClass.php';
A very efficient approach to managing code and developing web applications is to use a staging (development/QA/production) server environment to thoroughly test your code, and a CVS Repository to efficiently manage your code.
A bit of discipline, patience, and common sense is also required. =)
hmm, that's funny... Gnome only took approx. 5-10 minutes to compile (from the src) on Slackware...
You people and your lil' 90mhz P1 (w/ 45mb ram) linux boxes!! fuggetaboutet =p
Simply using firefox does not make users 'more advanced'.
Just because you prefer DIV over TABLE does not make you a 'more advanced' HTML/CSS Programmer, it actually proves your lack of experience in the real-world.
Introducing asynchronous functionality into your web page does not make it 'more advanced', it is just an 'alternative' design pattern.
AJAX is simply a design pattern people.
Whoever made the site 'AJAXDesignPatterns.com', has no clue what they are talking about.
not that we need any more reasons...
1st off, you're a tool if you use the MS Windows OS.
2nd off, you're ignorant for trusting Google (no matter what OS you choose), and simply retarded for WILLINGLY installing/using their desktop search spyware (err, software).
I use google, and I am well aware of what I should and should not allow them to record. You have to assume that ANYTHING you do on google (or any other website for that matter) is recorded, being sniffed, or monitored by who knows!?
Revealing personal information, pictures, anything on a public web site, is a common-sense 'no-no'.
Don't blame google for their transition into the darkside, blame yourself! =/
Chances are, anything you try to say, no matter how hard you try, will not matter to them.
They are of the 'spoonfed' corporate-mindset type, and will not listen to you, as you are on the bottom of the ladder as they see it, or a 'maverick' as I've been deemed. lol =p
I am suffering in a similar situation, and currently looking for a new job, and I suggest you do the same, as it will never get better, unless you become the manager.
Linux has made many independent contractors and small businesses very successful, not to mention governments, NASA, and big corporations like Google.
I know this move may sound like career-suicide, but if your boss wishes to flush money down the drain in software licenses (generally with the excuse of 'vendor support'), simply because he reads to much cnet or whatever, then you should perhaps consider going above his head (if possible), for 'the (financial) sake of the entire company/organization.
I'll be VERY happy, otherwise, I'll VERY be crippled soon. =/
you can sniff my packets and examine my logs all you want, baby.
Good Luck! =p
Shell Scripting is for people who like (and know how to use) *NIX.
Who needs packages and 'patches' when you can automate the installation/update across 12931293789321728 machines from the execution of 1 simple (hand-coded) shell script, using NFS and rsh.
That site is troll central.
The only reason people even use that hideous site, is because it's free.
There are many ways to combat abusive listings, without having to charge people who post ads.
Charging is just more convenient, and using the 'preventative' excuse is a bunch of BS.
In the case, Web Programming 'Standards' or 'Interpriters'?
Until the Interpriters that are built in to web browsers can interprit compliant 'standards-based' code correctly, then there really is no need to try to be 100% compliant w/ the W3C.
In the war of TABLES vs. DIV+CSS, I have to say that TABLES win.
I do agree that DIV+CSS is nicer, cleaner, and easier to code... but, that means nothing to me if my site that generates 1,000,000 hits/day, is not compliant w/ the browsers that the audience is using.
Say 2% of those 1,000,000 users use a browser that does not properly render DIV+CSS *ie 4/5 etc*, then you have just made a bad impression on 20,000 users, who most likely won't return to your web site.
If you could care less about those 20,000 users, then fine, but if you depend on their hits to pay your bills, then you'll understand what I'm saying.
They need to learn the hard way, you can't just legally bully innocent people and think you can continue to get away with it.
If we can't sue w/ the Police for this type of behaviour (unless it's on video), we can at least sue the RIAA! =p
Mental Anguish
Pain & Suffering
Character Defamation
etc. etc.
I wish I was a lawyer sometimes! =/
From my experience, most IT (development) staff sit quietly, trying not to 'rock the boat', doing whatever they can to secure their jobs (generally writing un-maintainable code, or supressing knowledge transfers), and overall being as minimally productive as possible.
Structure, Processes, Life-Cycles, and Oversight help make a simple 2 minute task drag out into weeks, and sometimes months (if not years).
Smaller IT shops are generally far more productive, albeit under a lot more pressure to produce results.
Non-Profit, Education, and Government IT Dept.'s are generally run the worst, and least productive.
Microsoft is great at spreading pointless fud, as well as useless software. yay! go bill!!
Consuming a large volume of alcohol is proven to relieve pain, which makes it an ideal distributable product for routy college football and spanish soccer fans, especially those whose adrenaline causes them to beat eachothers heads into a bloody pulp.
Relying on an author's honesty is like relying on a Politician's Honesty.
This just proves my point about the bible! =p
"Mitnick was arrested in 1995 by the FBI for hacking. He served five years in prison, including eight months in solitary confinement after it was alleged that he could launch nuclear missiles by whistling into a telephone."
LOL
that's about as bad as the whole Lance Armstrong is god BS.