I wrote a version control plugin for JBuilder -- yet another IDE with its own plugin architecture -- and I'm currently learning the Eclipse plugin architecture so I can port it... yes, it sure would be nice if I could just deploy it as is to other IDEs!
Why port it? Eclipse already has full CVS-integration with the features of your plug-in under JBuilder.
With RedHat's latest sprint version wise (7.3->8.0->9.0) it's probably a safe bet to say that this release is going to be RedHat 10.0. Or maybe "RedHat X"? Roman numerals are popular this time of year..;o)
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Am I the only one thinking that chickens are kind of the WRONG type of bird to use..? What is the odds of meeting a chicken (or turkey for that matter) in 30000 feet? I think the chicken would be just as surprised to suddenly be flying..:o)
The USER will accept any and all abuse from the DEVELOPER of the SOFTWARE whether or not this abuse is justified. It is after all the DEVELOPER who has made the SOFTWARE. Tough sh*t! RTFM!
This new issue would allow operators of a malicious website to remote root your machine if you navigate to them.
According to Microsoft's advisory this exploit is only able to run with user priviledges. Although on Win9x this is always "root" it really shouldn't be the case on 2000 and XP. Because you really don't use your Administrator-account to browse the web, do you?
Seriously, why..? The C64 was a cool piece of machinery in its day but honestly... Who other than sentimental geeks would WANT to browse the web on a C64? Or run anything else than Iridium or Krakout or any of the other cool games..?
I'm not putting the C64 down. I've owned one myself and I've been pretty impressed by some of the things that have been done on it (including Contiki). But I can't help thinking that such talent that it takes to do this could be put to better use.
Maybe it's just me. Come to think of it it probably is..
36 GB @ $160..? Given the further advantages of SCSI over IDE I would rather fork out the extra $40 and go for the SCSI drive.
If this had the same capacity as the "desktop" IDE drives, say 120+ GB then we would be talking. We don't use any drives SCSI or otherwise below 60 GB for our servers.
There are some nice pictures on the ES site as well. I wonder if the colouration of the cabinets is there to prevent the engineers from getting lost..?:o)
But you are forgetting the vast amount of users running IIS without knowing it by way of having installed Win2K with indexing services and what not.
The majority of Code Red attacks came (and is still coming) from private users that have never even heard of a Microsoft Security Bulletin, the URLScan tool or the Lockdown Tool.
Sadly these type of users are still in the majority.
You're kidding, right?! Every serious game-company does this for the exact reasons mentioned by Carmack.
They have to be concerned with fill-rates. They have the crappy job to make sure that their game runs as good as possible on all plausible setups. Only one way to find out...
I think someone here is a little envious of the success (and money) of one Mr. Carmack. And come on.. The lobster analogy..? That seriously makes NO sense to anyone.
Hmm.. It's not everyone that has a Deep Space Network at their disposal. And I doubt that Joe Outback has equipment to detect the carrier-wave of 10^-9 W.
Besides.. Why would it be a bad thing? What could possibly be so secret?
My guess is out of concerns about draining the power-supply and thereby losing it forever. By shutting down the most power-consuming instruments (telemetry and active transmitter) they have possibly gotten the power-consumption down to a level where the batteries have not been fully drained so a power-on of the craft might be possible. At least that's what they hope.
If they pull this off it will be a feat almost level with the Pioneer spacecrafts. And it will definitely be a textbook example of getting bang for the bucks by pushing envelopes left and right..:o)
I don't think this is a matter of wanting the X-box to fail. Fact is that it's failing all by itself..
Microsoft is trying to buy into a market already cornered by another player with huge funds at its disposal. The recent reduction in price is clearly an indication that Sony is winning the bid for the market although Nintendo might have something to say about that too (Although I also doubt that).
The X-box might be a better console. But Sony already prepped the PS2 market when they released the PS1 and subsequently made the PS2 backwards compatible. It's going to cost Microsoft billions of dollars and several iterations of the X-box to get a substantial bite of the console market.
Personally I couldn't care less if Microsoft does or does not succeed with the X-box. I've owned a PS1 for a long time and recently got a PS2. I have no intention of buying an X-box.
1) Am I the only one finding it strange that one is presented with a click-thru NDA? Not a license-agreement, but an NDA with a running period of 2 years..? Bells and whistles are going off left and right here.
2) What amateurish installation is this? First a normal setup runs via Windows Installer. Fine, no prob. That means I'm going to be able to uninstall this app. Wait a minute.. Extracting file xxxx of 16003 ?! Hmmm.. Well, after having decided that the account-server is probably/.'ed from here to eternity and back I decided to uninstall Project Eternity. Guess what.. 16000+ files totalling 445 MB was left on my disk following uninstallation. That definitely could use some serious work..
There was an uproar a few years ago, about the Cassini probe. That probe, containing over 32 KG of plutonium, was lifted by a launcher which, at the time, had a one in twenty failure rate, and was due for another.
Here's a fact for you. One in twenty doesn't really mean that once you've launched 19 rockets without failure the next one will go boom!.. It just means that there is a 5% risc that it does go boom. It isn't cumulative.
But I agree with you. A lot of research remains for this to become safe. But I also agree with the article. We need new energy-sources. And we might need to travel far to get to them.
You are quoting a Microsoft software designer on software design. Wow, that has to redefine either "guts" or "insanity".
Just because he was a Microsoft employee at one time doesn't automatically make all his statements false. The book I linked is actually quite respected on the area of user-interface design.
Every machine is the creation of a human. Some of those creations have a beauty and functionality surpassing that of others. Part of that can be unquanitifiable, and it is that that is a machine's "soul"
Ah, come on.. Get off the weed. I'd dignify this if every computer was handcrafted from scratch. The mass-produced iMac (or any computer for that matter) has as little soul as the stone I just kicked outside. In fact the stone might even have a fraction more...
Cocoa, meaning the frameworks and objective C language in this case, is the best object oriented programming environment I've ever seen.
Sorry, I was a little fast there. apple.com was unresponsive, so I took the next-best rated link on Google. Apparently I jumped the gun. (This would also mean that I haven't tried Cocoa).
And "not where the money is"??? OK, it's true you can make more money if you use VB than if you program in Cocoa. I'm not aware of any decent programs written in VB, or any decent programmers who use VB, but whatever floats your boat, I guess.
And excatly where did you get the impression that I program in VB? I don't. VB is proprietary and platform-specific making it out of the question for my use. So is Cocoa for that matter (yes, apple.com is now responding to my requests). As quoted from the apple site: The Cocoa application environment is designed specifically for Mac OS X-only native applications. Mac OS X-only..? Thanks but no thanks... At least not until OS X gets a substancially bigger slice of the market both server- and desktop-wise. I'll stick with my platform-independant ANSI C++ thank you very much.
When I use Mac OS X, I can *feel* that somewhere in Cupertino there's an English major who was losing sleep at nights trying to make the text in the dialog boxes as clear and understandable as possible.
Bull! 1) The machine is a tool. It's not meant to be a piece of art. 2) It has no soul. It's a thing. A dead object. I agree with you on the quality point though but sometimes it seems like Apple uses waaaay too much money on design. Pretty design does not equal quality. Not by a longshot.
For those of you who haven't programmed using Cocoa or haven't messed around much with OS X or actually seen and used a recent iMac in person, there's no substitute for the tangible results of Apple's years of dedication.
I wouldn't touch either with a ten foot pole. Cocoa is "Java for kids" (Java is bad enough..), iMacs are a pain and OS X is not where the money is...
Maybe it's not when Apple would have wanted it, but Time did "the right thing" from a journalist's perspective. They "broke the story", which is what journalists are paid to do.
Funny thing is.. They didn't "break the story". Look at this article. Then look at the date..
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With RedHat's latest sprint version wise (7.3->8.0->9.0) it's probably a safe bet to say that this release is going to be RedHat 10.0. Or maybe "RedHat X"? Roman numerals are popular this time of year.. ;o)
Terrorists! Get them!
Lucky that Linux is monolithicthen..
Am I the only one thinking that chickens are kind of the WRONG type of bird to use..? What is the odds of meeting a chicken (or turkey for that matter) in 30000 feet? I think the chicken would be just as surprised to suddenly be flying.. :o)
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According to Microsoft's advisory this exploit is only able to run with user priviledges. Although on Win9x this is always "root" it really shouldn't be the case on 2000 and XP. Because you really don't use your Administrator-account to browse the web, do you?Holy cr*p, you really pressed all kinds of buttons there. I was going up in flames right up until the last line of your post.
Jolly good show, sir..! :o)
Seriously, why..? The C64 was a cool piece of machinery in its day but honestly... Who other than sentimental geeks would WANT to browse the web on a C64? Or run anything else than Iridium or Krakout or any of the other cool games..?
I'm not putting the C64 down. I've owned one myself and I've been pretty impressed by some of the things that have been done on it (including Contiki). But I can't help thinking that such talent that it takes to do this could be put to better use.
Maybe it's just me. Come to think of it it probably is..
If this had the same capacity as the "desktop" IDE drives, say 120+ GB then we would be talking. We don't use any drives SCSI or otherwise below 60 GB for our servers.
"The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.". Still my favorite opening line.. :o)
There are some nice pictures on the ES site as well. I wonder if the colouration of the cabinets is there to prevent the engineers from getting lost..? :o)
The majority of Code Red attacks came (and is still coming) from private users that have never even heard of a Microsoft Security Bulletin, the URLScan tool or the Lockdown Tool.
Sadly these type of users are still in the majority.
You're kidding, right?! Every serious game-company does this for the exact reasons mentioned by Carmack.
They have to be concerned with fill-rates. They have the crappy job to make sure that their game runs as good as possible on all plausible setups. Only one way to find out...
I think someone here is a little envious of the success (and money) of one Mr. Carmack. And come on.. The lobster analogy..? That seriously makes NO sense to anyone.
Besides.. Why would it be a bad thing? What could possibly be so secret?
If they pull this off it will be a feat almost level with the Pioneer spacecrafts. And it will definitely be a textbook example of getting bang for the bucks by pushing envelopes left and right.. :o)
Microsoft is trying to buy into a market already cornered by another player with huge funds at its disposal. The recent reduction in price is clearly an indication that Sony is winning the bid for the market although Nintendo might have something to say about that too (Although I also doubt that).
The X-box might be a better console. But Sony already prepped the PS2 market when they released the PS1 and subsequently made the PS2 backwards compatible. It's going to cost Microsoft billions of dollars and several iterations of the X-box to get a substantial bite of the console market.
Personally I couldn't care less if Microsoft does or does not succeed with the X-box. I've owned a PS1 for a long time and recently got a PS2. I have no intention of buying an X-box.
1) Am I the only one finding it strange that one is presented with a click-thru NDA? Not a license-agreement, but an NDA with a running period of 2 years..? Bells and whistles are going off left and right here.
2) What amateurish installation is this? First a normal setup runs via Windows Installer. Fine, no prob. That means I'm going to be able to uninstall this app. Wait a minute.. Extracting file xxxx of 16003 ?! Hmmm.. Well, after having decided that the account-server is probably /.'ed from here to eternity and back I decided to uninstall Project Eternity. Guess what.. 16000+ files totalling 445 MB was left on my disk following uninstallation. That definitely could use some serious work..
Check msdn. It's in Win2k as well.
But I agree with you. A lot of research remains for this to become safe. But I also agree with the article. We need new energy-sources. And we might need to travel far to get to them.