Too bad most sites are too stupid to allow a long enough password. I'll take a 16-character pass-phrase with all lower case + whitespace over a hard to remember 8 character one anyday.
How about using Bitlocker To go to encrypt your USB devices? It's installed/available on all Win7 SKU's (though you need Enterprise/Ultimate to initally encrypt the device). As it's part of the OS, there's no suspision for having it...
I checked their list of "supported" ISP's and the one I use isn't on it. I use an ADSL2+ connection with a custom reverse dns. There's no way for them to tell my ISP by host name; they'd need to lookup the netblock instead. However they're blocking access, it doesn't seem to be foolproof.
How plausable is it to think that anyone can fully implement the spec? Given that any file format is essentially a saved state of every feature the authoring program has and Office has over a million man-years of time put into it, why is it reasonable to expect a few people to fully implement it?
A partial implementation is different - just implement the features you need or use an SDK.
If they allow access to SSL sites, then how would they stop you from using an SSL VPN to your office/home to get to any site/service you want? If they block Skype, then use your SSL VPN and go through that...
Windows has long been able to do this via Group Policy. You can specify that only programs signed with specified Authenticode keys can be run, effectively locking the system. Since all OS files are signed by Microsoft and anything a corporation would need could be signed, then if a corporation wanted a locked-down box, then they'd just specify the allowed keys and block everything else.
Sparkle is not supposed to be a Flash killer. It's designed to allow rich UI's to be created for Windows applications. The new Windows Presentation Layer, formally known as Avalon, needs a UI tool more geared to designers than developers (Visual Studio).
With Sparkle, a graphic designer can easily work on the UI elements while a developer concentrates on the code.
According to one Microsoft guy, Microsoft is removing the royalty-free license requirment and instead is issuing an irrevocable commitment not to suethat says they won't ever sue you.
The way the Register describes it, it appears that rather than sending out chunks of the actual file, it's sending out something similar to PAR chunks where once you have enough data, you can reconstruct the original file.
Futher, with a few chunks, you can calculate new chunks to send over to others, that way more people have access to more of pieces of the file.
Sounds interesting, I wonder if it'll be incorporated into the next version of BT.
I work in Technology for a Wall Street firm (you've heard of them). Stuff like this happens all the time -- systems go down and are usually back up pretty quickly, some route to some exchange will bounce for a few min. This time it was worse in that it affected NYSE and not one of the smaller exchanges at the end of the trading day. If you look at any graph showing trading volumes, the last few minutes of trading are always the heaviest.
99.9% of the time, things bounce back very quickly and with the exception of a few internal emails, nobody cares, things go on.
There have long been rumors that the SQL Server codebase was made to be cross-platform internally so that if market conditions dictated, they could have a Linux/Unix/Apple version of SQL Server compiled in a few days.
Of course anyone who really knows anything can't say so lest they violate their NDA's.
Any law restricting content is in violation of the First Amendment. The courts have ruled that certain types of speech (indecency and obscentiy) get less protection, but I don't think anyone is realistically claiming that GTA is obscene.
There's a reason why Congress hasn't mandated the movie rating system -- it too would be unconstitutional.
Like the MPAA's ratings, ESRB's ratings are entirely voluntary. Stores like Wal-Mart can choose to require ID for certain ratings, but Congress cannot force stores to ID.
If you want to see a really amazing web interface, then check out Microsoft's Outlook Web Access 2003 (the web interface to Exchange 2003).
While they do use HTC's and behaviors, the result is astounding -- a fully responsive, dymamically updating UI that never needs to go back to the server for a full-screen refresh. It also looks and feels exactly like using Outlook 2003 on the desktop, drag-n-drop, sorting, right-clicking and all.
What we really need is a cross-browser way of coming up with a rich interface like that.
Trust me, it was a win. One of my family members was involved with the legal end of the case, on the Houghton side, and had the terms of the settlement not been favorable, they would have continued in court.
In any case like this it always comes down to money--how much money will it cost to persue the case in court versus money donated to the school. Especially given that HMCo is primarily an educational publisher, giving money to a school is hardly a burden. In fact, it's most likely a tax write-off.
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If you go to the source, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/05/a-design-with-all-caps.aspx, they note that there will be an option to disable it.
There's also a blog post that shows the registry key that works today to disable it.
This article spells it out:
http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability
Too bad most sites are too stupid to allow a long enough password. I'll take a 16-character pass-phrase with all lower case + whitespace over a hard to remember 8 character one anyday.
Bing just repsonded to the issue here:
http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/11/21/committed-to-comprehensive-results.aspx
They've found a bug in their image search algorithms and promise a fix by the end of the week.
How about using Bitlocker To go to encrypt your USB devices? It's installed/available on all Win7 SKU's (though you need Enterprise/Ultimate to initally encrypt the device). As it's part of the OS, there's no suspision for having it...
I checked their list of "supported" ISP's and the one I use isn't on it. I use an ADSL2+ connection with a custom reverse dns. There's no way for them to tell my ISP by host name; they'd need to lookup the netblock instead. However they're blocking access, it doesn't seem to be foolproof.
How plausable is it to think that anyone can fully implement the spec? Given that any file format is essentially a saved state of every feature the authoring program has and Office has over a million man-years of time put into it, why is it reasonable to expect a few people to fully implement it?
A partial implementation is different - just implement the features you need or use an SDK.
The reason you're seeing the result is due to an "overly secure" default for beta 1 when it comes to cross-domain embedded objects.
:)
Here's the explanation:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/05/why-isn-t-ie8-passing-acid2.aspx
Google is your friend next time...
If they allow access to SSL sites, then how would they stop you from using an SSL VPN to your office/home to get to any site/service you want? If they block Skype, then use your SSL VPN and go through that...
Gee, Cyanide is a "natural" chemical -- try putting that in your body and see how safe it is!
Windows has long been able to do this via Group Policy. You can specify that only programs signed with specified Authenticode keys can be run, effectively locking the system. Since all OS files are signed by Microsoft and anything a corporation would need could be signed, then if a corporation wanted a locked-down box, then they'd just specify the allowed keys and block everything else.
It'd be a huge nuisance but it's possible today.
Sparkle is not supposed to be a Flash killer. It's designed to allow rich UI's to be created for Windows applications. The new Windows Presentation Layer, formally known as Avalon, needs a UI tool more geared to designers than developers (Visual Studio).
With Sparkle, a graphic designer can easily work on the UI elements while a developer concentrates on the code.
According to one Microsoft guy, Microsoft is removing the royalty-free license requirment and instead is issuing an irrevocable commitment not to suethat says they won't ever sue you.
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http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/11
That doesn't make much sense since facts, according to copyright law, cannot be copyrighted.
The way the Register describes it, it appears that rather than sending out chunks of the actual file, it's sending out something similar to PAR chunks where once you have enough data, you can reconstruct the original file.
Futher, with a few chunks, you can calculate new chunks to send over to others, that way more people have access to more of pieces of the file.
Sounds interesting, I wonder if it'll be incorporated into the next version of BT.
I work in Technology for a Wall Street firm (you've heard of them). Stuff like this happens all the time -- systems go down and are usually back up pretty quickly, some route to some exchange will bounce for a few min. This time it was worse in that it affected NYSE and not one of the smaller exchanges at the end of the trading day. If you look at any graph showing trading volumes, the last few minutes of trading are always the heaviest.
99.9% of the time, things bounce back very quickly and with the exception of a few internal emails, nobody cares, things go on.
There have long been rumors that the SQL Server codebase was made to be cross-platform internally so that if market conditions dictated, they could have a Linux/Unix/Apple version of SQL Server compiled in a few days.
Of course anyone who really knows anything can't say so lest they violate their NDA's.
Any law restricting content is in violation of the First Amendment. The courts have ruled that certain types of speech (indecency and obscentiy) get less protection, but I don't think anyone is realistically claiming that GTA is obscene.
There's a reason why Congress hasn't mandated the movie rating system -- it too would be unconstitutional.
Like the MPAA's ratings, ESRB's ratings are entirely voluntary. Stores like Wal-Mart can choose to require ID for certain ratings, but Congress cannot force stores to ID.
AFAIK, TIBCO has been using Rendezvous as a trademark relating to network messaging for quite some time.
Will Trillian & Apple run in to trademark issues with that name?
If you want to see a really amazing web interface, then check out Microsoft's Outlook Web Access 2003 (the web interface to Exchange 2003).
While they do use HTC's and behaviors, the result is astounding -- a fully responsive, dymamically updating UI that never needs to go back to the server for a full-screen refresh. It also looks and feels exactly like using Outlook 2003 on the desktop, drag-n-drop, sorting, right-clicking and all.
What we really need is a cross-browser way of coming up with a rich interface like that.
If you want to download the entire SP complete network install (rather than just the 60-80 megs you may need), you can now get it here:
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F
What this means is that the next version of Office will not use the new Avalon API's for creating Windows using XML -- XAML.
XAML-based applications will require the Avalon subsystem, which will only be in Longhorn and beyond.
What they're saying is that the UI for the next version of Office will continue using the current API-set.
So how many people read the headline as Content Scrabling System?
So, Mars had a Sea and now it's dry and desert-like...
How long until they find worm-sign?
Trust me, it was a win. One of my family members was involved with the legal end of the case, on the Houghton side, and had the terms of the settlement not been favorable, they would have continued in court.
In any case like this it always comes down to money--how much money will it cost to persue the case in court versus money donated to the school. Especially given that HMCo is primarily an educational publisher, giving money to a school is hardly a burden. In fact, it's most likely a tax write-off.
Yes, but Houghton Mifflin Company, the publisher of The Wind Done Gone, won in that case.