Don't laugh, I remember in early 90's I worked for a company using SCO-Unix and one day our system admin was bragging to a SCO rep that the server had been up for over 6 months, and they warned us about a counter variable that for whatever reason was only 1 byte, so the server couldn't go more than 255 days without a reboot, or it would cause "strange untrackable problems"
Alot of it depends on the environment in the company. The job I left this summer I had the opposite problem, where even though I resigned they kept trying to give me new work to do so I couldn't wrap up properly the things I was already working on or get a proper transition plan into place. I ended up spending the last 4 hours of my last day trying to dump all my knowledge onto 2 people, and this was a couple days past my "official 2 weeks".
The job before that, 6 years ago, I wasn't even allowed on the premesis, and they had their wannabe security person meet me in a Taco Bell parking lot to give me a box with the contents of my desk.
I admit it, I also used to read encyclopedias and odd reference books just because. I also used to take things apart as a kid to see how they worked, of course putting them back together wasn't always easy.
So what's wrong with using Active Directory security/Windows authentication if your database allows it? I don't see why only Linux and BSD systems are secure.
Ah, but the purpose of the United Nations is more to try and maintain the status quo in the hopes that it will avoid confrontation and achieve peace. Of course, the status quo will only bring more and more conflict.
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I thought that Semperons WERE remarked Athlons. (in fact when they first came out with the Semperon line some motherboards reported them as Athlons)
Actually I believe that PostgreSQL and Oracle could be a very complimentary setup. Keep Oracle for the mission critical applications and large data warehouses, while using PostgreSQL for smaller datamarts and ancillary applications. Since they have a simmilar architecture in terms of designing tablespaces, PostgreSQL's new 8.1 features like bitmap indexes and such moving even closer to Oracle's capabilities, and a simmilar procedural language for triggers and stored procs, I can easily see Oracle being used for enterprise wide purposes and PostgreSQL being used for workgroup purposes.
I think the problem that everyone is ignoring is that Shakespeare wrote his plays in the language of the day. Today, it is painfull for students to have to read them and comprehend them because the language of today is not the language of Shakespeare's day. The power behind his works is in the stories, plotlines, concepts, and character development, not in the old English that it is written in. That being said, I still think it is wrong to dilute it to the point of "2B ? NT2B?". That is almost as painful to read as some of the old English parts of Shakespeare.
The Quest games were very well done, and I enjoyed them quite a bit, but does anyone remember Starflight? I think that was the first interactive/responsive game, since things you did and actions you took could actually change how the other races interact with you. Allot of these first person shooter games all seem alike to me. They need to be a bit more innovative, shooting a stormtrooper is not that much different than shooting a monster or zombie or whatever.
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Of course human life didn't evolve on this planet. A spaceship full of accountants and hairdressers crashed onto this planet. They are our ancestors, not the apes.
Of course big money will win out in situations like this. I used to work for a company that changed its name to somethingysys, knowing full well there was already a company in a simmilar but not exactly same field of business with the same name but spelled somethingisys. The lawyers wrangled for a few months and ysys basically won because they where bigger and could afford to throw more money at the sutiation.
The problem with a tax based on consumption, is that people who are in lower tax brackets now, who frequently live paycheck to paycheck and don't have much savings, would end up paying a higher percentage of gross income to taxes. Yes they still would pay less than middle or upper income people because they buy less things and use less services, but they still loose out. Even with tax breaks up to the poverty line, isn't there still a problem, since there are a large number of people in this country who may not be unemployed but are under-employed.
Also, how would they deal with money that is currently in tax deferred accounts such as IRAs or 401Ks?
As I see it - the only reason the UK and USA are in Iraq right now is control over oil
If we just wanted to control oil, we would have invaded Venezuela instead of Iraq, much closer to home, would have been easier to control, and it is surrounded by countries that are a bit more friendly to us than Iraq's neighbors are.
Has anyone here on/. ever even been to a Sci-Fi convention? While I am a guy, and from the U.S. not the U.K., from what I've seen here Buffy does have a loyal female following, and to a lesser extent Xena used to, but they don't represent the largest female fanbase in Sci-Fi. From my observations, there seems to be more women interested in series like Stargate, Star Trek, and books/movies such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars.
nah, XML is just a fad! I've been trying to convince people that for the last 3 years but they don't believe me. I guess it will be their loss when it fades away.
How do you think Microsoft got started in the first place? Bill Gates isn't some technical founding father that brought innovation to the masses. Remember he bought the original version of DOS, even if his buddies did dress it up a bit afterwards. Remember windows style GUI environments got their start at Xerox. There is a history of being reactionary here. Bill Gates is more an exceptional businessman who knows how to take advantage of emerging technologies and situations to generate big profits than he is some great visionary of users computing experiences.
I think part of the problem here is that there are alot of programmers who have to work off of specs designed and written by someone else. Programmers tend to be stuck in a tough situation, their job requires a number of skills, yet they tend to be thought of at the bottom of the totem pole. Also alot of programmers are using lower level libraries built by someone else, usually third party (such as Microsoft Active-X controls, etc) that provide the actual loopholes in security and exposure.
Windows 98 did not have the ability to join a domain, in the way that NT Workstation, 2000 Pro, or XP Pro do, 98 did have the networking protocols that let you login to and utilize a domain and its resources though.
Back to the topic at hand, XP Home does allow you to use the remote desktop connection program, it is available from Microsoft's website, it just doesn't come with it pre-installed like XP Pro does. Microsoft also phased out the Personal Web Server that came with 98, I imagine because of security considerations and the development of.NET. The web services that come with XP Pro are actually a slimmed down version of IIS, which is a significant upgrade from the wimpy web server from 98.
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Actually both of them exist, it's just that one doesn't like to play nice with all the other kids in the neighborhood.
Don't laugh, I remember in early 90's I worked for a company using SCO-Unix and one day our system admin was bragging to a SCO rep that the server had been up for over 6 months, and they warned us about a counter variable that for whatever reason was only 1 byte, so the server couldn't go more than 255 days without a reboot, or it would cause "strange untrackable problems"
says it's 6.0.2900.2180
Alot of it depends on the environment in the company. The job I left this summer I had the opposite problem, where even though I resigned they kept trying to give me new work to do so I couldn't wrap up properly the things I was already working on or get a proper transition plan into place. I ended up spending the last 4 hours of my last day trying to dump all my knowledge onto 2 people, and this was a couple days past my "official 2 weeks". The job before that, 6 years ago, I wasn't even allowed on the premesis, and they had their wannabe security person meet me in a Taco Bell parking lot to give me a box with the contents of my desk.
I admit it, I also used to read encyclopedias and odd reference books just because. I also used to take things apart as a kid to see how they worked, of course putting them back together wasn't always easy.
...but the ping time to /. from Mars would be atrocious!
So what's wrong with using Active Directory security/Windows authentication if your database allows it? I don't see why only Linux and BSD systems are secure.
Ah, but the purpose of the United Nations is more to try and maintain the status quo in the hopes that it will avoid confrontation and achieve peace. Of course, the status quo will only bring more and more conflict.
I thought that Semperons WERE remarked Athlons. (in fact when they first came out with the Semperon line some motherboards reported them as Athlons)
Actually I believe that PostgreSQL and Oracle could be a very complimentary setup. Keep Oracle for the mission critical applications and large data warehouses, while using PostgreSQL for smaller datamarts and ancillary applications. Since they have a simmilar architecture in terms of designing tablespaces, PostgreSQL's new 8.1 features like bitmap indexes and such moving even closer to Oracle's capabilities, and a simmilar procedural language for triggers and stored procs, I can easily see Oracle being used for enterprise wide purposes and PostgreSQL being used for workgroup purposes.
I think the problem that everyone is ignoring is that Shakespeare wrote his plays in the language of the day. Today, it is painfull for students to have to read them and comprehend them because the language of today is not the language of Shakespeare's day. The power behind his works is in the stories, plotlines, concepts, and character development, not in the old English that it is written in. That being said, I still think it is wrong to dilute it to the point of "2B ? NT2B?". That is almost as painful to read as some of the old English parts of Shakespeare.
the first time I read the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything
The Quest games were very well done, and I enjoyed them quite a bit, but does anyone remember Starflight? I think that was the first interactive/responsive game, since things you did and actions you took could actually change how the other races interact with you. Allot of these first person shooter games all seem alike to me. They need to be a bit more innovative, shooting a stormtrooper is not that much different than shooting a monster or zombie or whatever.
Of course human life didn't evolve on this planet. A spaceship full of accountants and hairdressers crashed onto this planet. They are our ancestors, not the apes.
Of course big money will win out in situations like this. I used to work for a company that changed its name to somethingysys, knowing full well there was already a company in a simmilar but not exactly same field of business with the same name but spelled somethingisys. The lawyers wrangled for a few months and ysys basically won because they where bigger and could afford to throw more money at the sutiation.
The problem with a tax based on consumption, is that people who are in lower tax brackets now, who frequently live paycheck to paycheck and don't have much savings, would end up paying a higher percentage of gross income to taxes. Yes they still would pay less than middle or upper income people because they buy less things and use less services, but they still loose out. Even with tax breaks up to the poverty line, isn't there still a problem, since there are a large number of people in this country who may not be unemployed but are under-employed. Also, how would they deal with money that is currently in tax deferred accounts such as IRAs or 401Ks?
In this country, you can copyright methods and thoughts... In Soviet Union, government tells you what methods and thoughts to have!.
As I see it - the only reason the UK and USA are in Iraq right now is control over oil If we just wanted to control oil, we would have invaded Venezuela instead of Iraq, much closer to home, would have been easier to control, and it is surrounded by countries that are a bit more friendly to us than Iraq's neighbors are.
Has anyone here on /. ever even been to a Sci-Fi convention? While I am a guy, and from the U.S. not the U.K., from what I've seen here Buffy does have a loyal female following, and to a lesser extent Xena used to, but they don't represent the largest female fanbase in Sci-Fi. From my observations, there seems to be more women interested in series like Stargate, Star Trek, and books/movies such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars.
nah, XML is just a fad! I've been trying to convince people that for the last 3 years but they don't believe me. I guess it will be their loss when it fades away.
How do you think Microsoft got started in the first place? Bill Gates isn't some technical founding father that brought innovation to the masses. Remember he bought the original version of DOS, even if his buddies did dress it up a bit afterwards. Remember windows style GUI environments got their start at Xerox. There is a history of being reactionary here. Bill Gates is more an exceptional businessman who knows how to take advantage of emerging technologies and situations to generate big profits than he is some great visionary of users computing experiences.
I think part of the problem here is that there are alot of programmers who have to work off of specs designed and written by someone else. Programmers tend to be stuck in a tough situation, their job requires a number of skills, yet they tend to be thought of at the bottom of the totem pole. Also alot of programmers are using lower level libraries built by someone else, usually third party (such as Microsoft Active-X controls, etc) that provide the actual loopholes in security and exposure.
didn't know there was a SAFE part of Nigeria...
Windows 98 did not have the ability to join a domain, in the way that NT Workstation, 2000 Pro, or XP Pro do, 98 did have the networking protocols that let you login to and utilize a domain and its resources though. Back to the topic at hand, XP Home does allow you to use the remote desktop connection program, it is available from Microsoft's website, it just doesn't come with it pre-installed like XP Pro does. Microsoft also phased out the Personal Web Server that came with 98, I imagine because of security considerations and the development of .NET. The web services that come with XP Pro are actually a slimmed down version of IIS, which is a significant upgrade from the wimpy web server from 98.
nah... XML is just a fad, like command line interfaces and that there thin client system design model.