This is why we have a document explaining which APIs are finalized and which may change prior to 1.0.
You mean the document that lists django-admin in the stable API section of this document? The section that starts off with:
What "stable" means
In this context, stable means:
All the public APIs -- everything documented in the linked documents, and all methods that don't begin with an underscore -- will not be moved or renamed without providing backwards-compatible aliases.
If new features are added to these APIs -- which is quite possible -- they will not break or change the meaning of existing methods. In other words, "stable" does not (necessarily) mean "complete."
If, for some reason, an API declared stable must be removed or replaced, it will be declared deprecated but will remain in the API until at least version 1.1. Warnings will be issued when the deprecated method is called.
We'll only break backwards compatibility of these APIs if a bug or security hole makes it completely unavoidable.
Except for activating/hacking on the admin interface (the admin refactor just landed over the weekend)
Yeah thanks. I had been working with ROR for some time and decided to give Django a try. I was working through the Django book just fine until I hit the admin pages section. After a few hours of frustration I did a little web search. Wouldn't you know it, within the last 48 hours someone had dropped a refactor of the admin system into the trunk right before I picked it up.
This is why I don't do production work with newer frameworks like these. The next time I need to change something, half of my application could be broken!
Things are definitely looking good. Now we just need to start building a bunch of nuclear power plants so they'll be ready in time for when the plug-in hybrids and pure-electric vehicles hit critical mass.
It might just be me, but I think saying "nuclear power plant" and "critical mass" in the same sentence is just asking for it.
Normally, unused blocks on a drive have whatever data pattern the formatting software puts there (typically something like "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF..." or "55AAAA5555AAAA55..."), or remnants of other files, or parts of free block lists and empty extents and the like. If you have a big chunk of random noise in the middle that's an indication that you've got an encrypted volume in there somewhere.
What you said is correct. You have to keep in mind however that a hidden Truecrypt container is placed inside a normal container. This means that the "formatting software" is Truecrypt, and the data pattern that Truecrypt puts there when it formats the normal container is a big chunk of random noise. Regardless of whether you have a hidden container inside the normal one or not, the unused space will be filled with random noise. There is no way to tell by inspection whether the random noise is just that or a hidden volume.
Legend has it that Mark Twain once said "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times." That seems about right.
When the enviroflakes find out sea critters might get sliced and diced in the turbines, this will go the same way as wind generators because of birds. It will take an extra 5 years and countless wasted lawyer dollars to get a permit.
TFA indicated that it is a sealed system that uses wave action to circulated contained sea water through the turbines. No transfer of water in or out of the system and no sushi.
I didn't see anything in TFA, but one wonders if they've considered sediment buildup around the device. Do they have some way to keep sand/sediment from burying the machine?
TFA indicated that the anacondas were a sealed system, anchored just below the surface, in relatively deep waters. Given that I don't think there will be too much sediment. The moving bulge wave should prevent buildup of other marine life as well. It may still suffer from exposure though since it needs to anchored rather shallowly, and it will be a marine navigation hazard.
Oh, and it's bound to screw up some sea turtle's migratory or nesting pattern or something like that and die on the vine.
It takes an enormous amount of work to make a good academic text.
Too bad that only happens 1 time in 10 for the textbooks I used. Funny thing was, the ones that were crap were just as expensive and just as required. Too many of them were a regurgitation of the same of garbage as the last edition. About the only thing you could count on were the typos and the figures that didn't match up to the text. Heaven help you if a prof was actually in the process of writing a book.
There's always networking. Where I work that's where most of our CS/MIS graduates that can't actually program usually end up. It's either that or crash test dummy.
That's because Mac users smart enough to buy a Das Keyboard are also smart enough to find the setting in System Preferences that lets you swap the Command and Option keys so that it behaves as expected.
Provably not true. Please see TFA for a counter-example.
Actually the terminal keys are distributed to the ATMs using public key cryptography these days. This alleviates the need to send techs onsite for a key load and to trust them with key components.
The PIN blocks also include part of the card number XORed in prior to encryption. This prevents the creation of a code book for all 4 digit PINs under a specific working key. The same PIN on a different card will produce a different PIN block.
Maybe we can somehow connect all of the founding fathers to generators. They're spinning in their graves so fast right now we could probably power the whole eastern seaboard!
This man was charged with a felony because the owner of the connection failed to educate himself on how to use a point and click interface to secure a home wireless router. Was he up to no good? Maybe, but we don't know for sure, and it's beside the point.
To quote the referenced article:
According to the police, Benjamin Smith III was seen by Richard Dinon outside Dinon's home on the night of April 20, 2005, sitting in a parked SUV and using a laptop computer. When Dinon went outside to deposit his trash, Smith quickly closed the laptop and tried to hide it.
It's clear from his actions that he understood what he was doing and whether he thought it was wrong or not.
Any discomfort will soon be forgotten, and they may even be able to shed themselves of the dead-beat "customers" that cost them more than they make.
I doubt that the customers using this feature are the ones they would like to eliminate from their customer base. I suspect that most of customers using this feature do so (like I do) in order to segregate out my selections and returns from my children's choices. They have a tendency to hang on to movies for a while before they watch them, or they watch them several times before sending them back. I didn't really care about it since it was their queue, not mine. Now it is everyone's queue and I will be sending things back in a shorter period of time. In addition, several of my friends have signed up for netflix for their households once I described this feature to them.
This "downgrade" in service has reminded me to take another look at the market and see what other companies like Blockbuster are doing. If they are offering this service, I will probably send my Roku back and switch services.
Or, more likely, beat them within an inch of their life, break their fingers, cut off their toes...then ask them for the key or else you will get really nasty.
That certainly gives "brute force attack" a whole new meaning anyway.
Question is, does the encryptor rewrite the data in-place, or just encrypt to a new file then delete the original? If the latter, the data is still recoverable with a simple undelete utility.
Overheard in a cybercafe in asdfasdfastan: "Damn, why didn't I think of that?" followed by the sound of someone slapping their own forehead.
I'm waiting for the first company to put a data center a few hundred feet under water, where the water temp is low. You'd be surrounded by the worlds biggest heat sink. The environmentalists would have a hissy fit but that's never stopped industry before, and of course you could argue that you are saving electricty on cooling.
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You mean the document that lists django-admin in the stable API section of this document? The section that starts off with:
Got it. Thanks.
Apparently so is the Constitution.
Yeah thanks. I had been working with ROR for some time and decided to give Django a try. I was working through the Django book just fine until I hit the admin pages section. After a few hours of frustration I did a little web search. Wouldn't you know it, within the last 48 hours someone had dropped a refactor of the admin system into the trunk right before I picked it up.
This is why I don't do production work with newer frameworks like these. The next time I need to change something, half of my application could be broken!
It might just be me, but I think saying "nuclear power plant" and "critical mass" in the same sentence is just asking for it.
Is this something I should worry about?
What you said is correct. You have to keep in mind however that a hidden Truecrypt container is placed inside a normal container. This means that the "formatting software" is Truecrypt, and the data pattern that Truecrypt puts there when it formats the normal container is a big chunk of random noise. Regardless of whether you have a hidden container inside the normal one or not, the unused space will be filled with random noise. There is no way to tell by inspection whether the random noise is just that or a hidden volume.
Legend has it that Mark Twain once said "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times." That seems about right.
TFA indicated that it is a sealed system that uses wave action to circulated contained sea water through the turbines. No transfer of water in or out of the system and no sushi.
TFA indicated that the anacondas were a sealed system, anchored just below the surface, in relatively deep waters. Given that I don't think there will be too much sediment. The moving bulge wave should prevent buildup of other marine life as well. It may still suffer from exposure though since it needs to anchored rather shallowly, and it will be a marine navigation hazard.
Oh, and it's bound to screw up some sea turtle's migratory or nesting pattern or something like that and die on the vine.
Given that this statement appears almost halfway through the blog post, I would say that it was already too late for that.
Too bad that only happens 1 time in 10 for the textbooks I used. Funny thing was, the ones that were crap were just as expensive and just as required. Too many of them were a regurgitation of the same of garbage as the last edition. About the only thing you could count on were the typos and the figures that didn't match up to the text. Heaven help you if a prof was actually in the process of writing a book.
There's always networking. Where I work that's where most of our CS/MIS graduates that can't actually program usually end up. It's either that or crash test dummy.
It is under "Your Account" in the top section ("account information"). The link is titled "Account Profiles".
Provably not true. Please see TFA for a counter-example.
Actually the terminal keys are distributed to the ATMs using public key cryptography these days. This alleviates the need to send techs onsite for a key load and to trust them with key components.
The PIN blocks also include part of the card number XORed in prior to encryption. This prevents the creation of a code book for all 4 digit PINs under a specific working key. The same PIN on a different card will produce a different PIN block.
Maybe we can somehow connect all of the founding fathers to generators. They're spinning in their graves so fast right now we could probably power the whole eastern seaboard!
This "downgrade" in service has reminded me to take another look at the market and see what other companies like Blockbuster are doing. If they are offering this service, I will probably send my Roku back and switch services.
"Damn, why didn't I think of that?" followed by the sound of someone slapping their own forehead.
Queue the camel jokes in 3...2...1..