Do you mean "security for the end user" or "security for Microsoft, to keep the end user from doing things which Microsoft does not want them to"?
My guess would be security for MSFT except where it conflicts with Intel's profit margins or disallows Intel from making certain things not work if you choose AMD.
Mind you, my AMD 3300 laptop works fine with WinXP, so your mileage (and chip cost) may vary.
Well, actually WinXP does occassionally lock up or need to be rebooted, but admittedly it is very very rare.
Most of the time it's because we've left a dev machine on for more than a week and it's run out of magic juju or whatever.
For non-server development machines, which may reference leaky objects, it's a good idea to shut them down periodically, after a graceful exit from all apps. If you do that, the only problem is Norton Anti-virus will complain it isn't protecting your machine - because it wasn't the first to boot up - think the MSFT Antispyware beta takes first pole and shoves other startup programs to run after it, your typical Non-MSFT programs must run later, even though it shouldn't do that.
Have to agree the Help system has a really really bad habit of bringing up useless WinCE help instead of what one is coding for - wish it would figure out from the Project that you DON'T want to code for WinCE and not bother you with extraneous carp like that.
And I also find the dockable windows do make it easy to get lost - or figure out which one disappeared.
Renaming references quickly is, admittedly, not very good, especially if you have code snippets that use them - it would be nice if it could at the very least pop up a WhatAboutThisCode window that you could use to find the other references from and make sure they comply, at the very least.
I was just saying what the review said. You'll have to disagree with the reviewer if you don't agree that most hacks may not work in the next version of Visual Studio.
I personally find that frequently, even if it's changed between versions, the hacks as mentioned are usually easily modifiable between versions, but you have to put a little thought into it and understand what has changed between versions, so they're not as easily modified, even though the basic principles may be useful.
I've got a copy of Visual Studio 2005 they gave me for a design panel on database tools at MSFT that I've yet to install, as I was waiting until I got my new laptop, but now that I have it, perhaps I'll install it and see if it is that different. Still got the shrinkwrap on it.
tearing down barriers is not always good. some of these hacks are used by pornographers to phish for whoever (including kids) by evading familiy filters etc. I found a hack (a word) that will return zero results for legitimate sites but about 5,000 related to highly unnatural acts. if you are in google, you are one word away from reading the site descriptions of these sites. kind of makes you think twice about whether it's ever safe to hit the "im feeling lucky" button.
There we go. This is why I hardly ever hit the i'm feeling lucky choice.
But, it's like basic science - it can be used for good or evil, depending on many things. Perhaps this is mostly good? Or mostly evil?
I can't say, but I do know that the people that these try to "trap" frequently use the results to avoid the new traps.
seriously, what good does this serve society? If you can prove that google hacking makes information more free, or that tearing down the barriers helps, well, fine.
If you want to see if you can secure data so it doesn't get google hacked - ok.
If you just want to show how nifty you are at using commonly available tools - there never has been any such thing as total privacy and there never will be.
Disclaimer: I'm a hardcore liberal. But I can't stand it when liberals make the "how can Republicans want the death penalty, but not abortion." It's easy. Unborn children haven't committed crimes. Criminals have.
You mean like the guy who just served 25 years for multiple rapes that DNA evidence proved was not him, so he was let go this week?
Some people would have executed him. There are no do-overs once you're killed by the state for the roar of the mob.
more like colors of the rainbow really, but you hit the nail on the head.
in my seven years in the Army, I learned that people who see war and terrorism as black and white are severely deluded, and that the same applies to almost any situation.
one of the things that makes my work fun in Bioinformatics is that I get to deal with the fuzziness and change that is life in the real world, and try to represent it in databases really designed for single-value black/white representation.
our problem is the number of people who think in black and white and try to falsely represent the world that exists in all the spectra.
and, as you say, information useful to humanity does not include our private behaviours except where they infringe on others - which means tabloid journalism is not information wanting to be free, but nosy parkers who have no lives of their own.
the Saudis aren't dealing with it, as even the CIA admits, they're expanding it.
but hey, my point had zilch to do with that and everything to do with the basic fact that currently the US isn't spending money on basic science or useful space programs that most of the population wants and desires.
you can make up excuses all you want and live in fear of the wrong guys, but it won't change that fact, just like it won't change the fact that to get out of this hole we need to invest in education, not fear.
We have already built new space delivery vehicles!
Didn't you see "Armageddon"??!
Nah, noone in that movie I wanted to see.
But seriously, other than the military space shuttle, and a couple of testbed heavy lift vehicles the military has reserved, we have no real investments in building new space delivery vehicles, which is why Japan and China are going to colonize the moon decades before we wake up.
All these little repairs don't leave any time for science. Remember science, the reason that we go to space?
You mean like fixing the Hubble Space Telescope that most of the public is overwhelmingly behind, instead of the Big Boondoggle Space Station that only the DC beltway insiders care about?
But that would be logical - and useful.
Weaponizing space is more important than science... or at least that's what they think. It's not like Japan and China are in a race to build a moon station while we fiddle around - oh, wait they are.
Where's the darn [sarcasm] key when you need it...
don't blame me for your failures. the military knows the real source isn't where you are talking about, but you just like to live in fear and swat at the boogyman.
it's all part of the culture of fear which permeates the red states and the DC beltway.
they're all chickens who've never flown, and the only risk they take is going to a race car rally or trying to step down from their monster trucks without breaking their ankles.
if you want real adventurers, you have to tune out those fear mongers, and live.
i've done more impossible things before breakfast than many, and find this Oh My Fricking G.. attitude to permeate those scaredy cats thinking. it's all they have, fear.
Real americans are made of sterner stuff than that. When we screw up, we deal with it and move on, we don't watch car crashes on the 6 o'clock news, cause we're busy scaling mountains for fun or surfing off Longpoint WA.
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I wonder if I should buy those P450 chips for my Linux servers with dual CPU slots now, before they cease to exist ...
Do you mean "security for the end user" or "security for Microsoft, to keep the end user from doing things which Microsoft does not want them to"?
My guess would be security for MSFT except where it conflicts with Intel's profit margins or disallows Intel from making certain things not work if you choose AMD.
Mind you, my AMD 3300 laptop works fine with WinXP, so your mileage (and chip cost) may vary.
with a Japanese credit card.
Why, is it harder than that?
Why must "entertainment media" be regionalized?
Because, if we learn that other cultures have similar questions about serving our masters, we might rebel against them and their fiefdoms.
Have to agree, yahoo music is way more reasonable in price - I even have a radio station there at radio.yahoo.com and you can watch videos too.
But still, if you really want some Japanese Pop tunes, the iTunes iTMS would be fairly useful.
Well, actually WinXP does occassionally lock up or need to be rebooted, but admittedly it is very very rare.
Most of the time it's because we've left a dev machine on for more than a week and it's run out of magic juju or whatever.
For non-server development machines, which may reference leaky objects, it's a good idea to shut them down periodically, after a graceful exit from all apps. If you do that, the only problem is Norton Anti-virus will complain it isn't protecting your machine - because it wasn't the first to boot up - think the MSFT Antispyware beta takes first pole and shoves other startup programs to run after it, your typical Non-MSFT programs must run later, even though it shouldn't do that.
Have to agree the Help system has a really really bad habit of bringing up useless WinCE help instead of what one is coding for - wish it would figure out from the Project that you DON'T want to code for WinCE and not bother you with extraneous carp like that.
And I also find the dockable windows do make it easy to get lost - or figure out which one disappeared.
Renaming references quickly is, admittedly, not very good, especially if you have code snippets that use them - it would be nice if it could at the very least pop up a WhatAboutThisCode window that you could use to find the other references from and make sure they comply, at the very least.
MS Visual Studio is Microsoft's ultimate killer app. It's just the single best tool for software development. I use it even when developing for Linux.
ROFLMAO.
Good one.
But you do bring up a good point that we need more - and better - IDE's for Linux development.
Why is a book about an MS IDE relevant in the Open Source age of Eclipse?
Because, contrary to those on the Dev sites, not everyone is using Eclipse yet.
So long as there is moderate marketshare, I think it's geeky enough for slashdot to post about, IMHO.
I was just saying what the review said. You'll have to disagree with the reviewer if you don't agree that most hacks may not work in the next version of Visual Studio.
I personally find that frequently, even if it's changed between versions, the hacks as mentioned are usually easily modifiable between versions, but you have to put a little thought into it and understand what has changed between versions, so they're not as easily modified, even though the basic principles may be useful.
I've got a copy of Visual Studio 2005 they gave me for a design panel on database tools at MSFT that I've yet to install, as I was waiting until I got my new laptop, but now that I have it, perhaps I'll install it and see if it is that different. Still got the shrinkwrap on it.
although it does mention most of these hacks won't work when the new Visual Studio comes out.
But informative none the less.
tearing down barriers is not always good. some of these hacks are used by pornographers to phish for whoever (including kids) by evading familiy filters etc. I found a hack (a word) that will return zero results for legitimate sites but about 5,000 related to highly unnatural acts. if you are in google, you are one word away from reading the site descriptions of these sites. kind of makes you think twice about whether it's ever safe to hit the "im feeling lucky" button.
There we go. This is why I hardly ever hit the i'm feeling lucky choice.
But, it's like basic science - it can be used for good or evil, depending on many things. Perhaps this is mostly good? Or mostly evil?
I can't say, but I do know that the people that these try to "trap" frequently use the results to avoid the new traps.
seriously, what good does this serve society? If you can prove that google hacking makes information more free, or that tearing down the barriers helps, well, fine.
If you want to see if you can secure data so it doesn't get google hacked - ok.
If you just want to show how nifty you are at using commonly available tools - there never has been any such thing as total privacy and there never will be.
Disclaimer: I'm a hardcore liberal. But I can't stand it when liberals make the "how can Republicans want the death penalty, but not abortion." It's easy. Unborn children haven't committed crimes. Criminals have.
You mean like the guy who just served 25 years for multiple rapes that DNA evidence proved was not him, so he was let go this week?
Some people would have executed him. There are no do-overs once you're killed by the state for the roar of the mob.
more like colors of the rainbow really, but you hit the nail on the head.
in my seven years in the Army, I learned that people who see war and terrorism as black and white are severely deluded, and that the same applies to almost any situation.
one of the things that makes my work fun in Bioinformatics is that I get to deal with the fuzziness and change that is life in the real world, and try to represent it in databases really designed for single-value black/white representation.
our problem is the number of people who think in black and white and try to falsely represent the world that exists in all the spectra.
and, as you say, information useful to humanity does not include our private behaviours except where they infringe on others - which means tabloid journalism is not information wanting to be free, but nosy parkers who have no lives of their own.
only people who fail to understand that the American way of life means Truth, Justice, and that Information Just Wants To Be Free.
Sadly, none of those people are in charge right now, only the Dark Siders.
the Saudis aren't dealing with it, as even the CIA admits, they're expanding it.
but hey, my point had zilch to do with that and everything to do with the basic fact that currently the US isn't spending money on basic science or useful space programs that most of the population wants and desires.
you can make up excuses all you want and live in fear of the wrong guys, but it won't change that fact, just like it won't change the fact that to get out of this hole we need to invest in education, not fear.
We have already built new space delivery vehicles!
Didn't you see "Armageddon"??!
Nah, noone in that movie I wanted to see.
But seriously, other than the military space shuttle, and a couple of testbed heavy lift vehicles the military has reserved, we have no real investments in building new space delivery vehicles, which is why Japan and China are going to colonize the moon decades before we wake up.
All these little repairs don't leave any time for science. Remember science, the reason that we go to space?
... or at least that's what they think. It's not like Japan and China are in a race to build a moon station while we fiddle around - oh, wait they are.
...
You mean like fixing the Hubble Space Telescope that most of the public is overwhelmingly behind, instead of the Big Boondoggle Space Station that only the DC beltway insiders care about?
But that would be logical - and useful.
Weaponizing space is more important than science
Where's the darn [sarcasm] key when you need it
Agreed, the question shouldn't be How Can We Fix And Limp Along With An Outdated Shuttle Until We Have None Left.
It should be Which New space delivery vehicles are we building and when?
don't blame me for your failures. the military knows the real source isn't where you are talking about, but you just like to live in fear and swat at the boogyman.
the parent link to the later story on the AP wire is way more informative and contradicts the overclock.com attempt to get slashdot hitrates.
it's all part of the culture of fear which permeates the red states and the DC beltway.
they're all chickens who've never flown, and the only risk they take is going to a race car rally or trying to step down from their monster trucks without breaking their ankles.
if you want real adventurers, you have to tune out those fear mongers, and live.
i've done more impossible things before breakfast than many, and find this Oh My Fricking G.. attitude to permeate those scaredy cats thinking. it's all they have, fear.
Real americans are made of sterner stuff than that. When we screw up, we deal with it and move on, we don't watch car crashes on the 6 o'clock news, cause we're busy scaling mountains for fun or surfing off Longpoint WA.
i agree, the slashdot editors should have definitely pointed to nasa.gov or at least space.com if they wanted a link for this.
but i guess they get ad revenue from those guys or something.
How much actually useful work was done by this flight?
Most of it was work on the space station and the usual classified military lasers and nukes in space that they never talk about.
So, realistically, not very much.