At a place I used to work, one of my coworkers reported a simple potential security problem: the username for the admin account on all our machines is the same as the computer's name. This just eliminates one less thing for a hacker to figure out. He was accused of "snooping", whatever that means, and almost lost his job. The only thing that saved him is a higher-up with a brain.
Whenever I hear a story about a person\firm reporting security risks, I am reminded of the story of my coworker, and I have heard too many similiar stories. It has trained to me keep my mouth shut about these problems.
More like an iPod Touch that won't fit in your pocket. There's no phone. I'd've been be much, much more impressed if it ran Mac OS X and not iPhone OS. That decision greatly cripples what the device can do.
I'm not impressed seeing the Facebook iPhone app running on it. I can run the full-version Facebook in Firefox on my $300 netbook. However, I suppose I can't install iFart on my netbook, but I'm sure I could find a worthwhile desktop replacement for that. At least I have that option. I'm not tied to the App store like the iPad. There's no Flash either. That means there is no Hulu on any other flash-based content streaming service.
This is an expensive netbook without software customization and without a keyboard. No thanks.
requires much less management. NoScript constantly updates and constantly requires white-listing sites to be able to use them. RequestPolicy defaults to denying just the off-site JavaScript, which is the JavaScript I care the most to deny.
Well, if there's group of users that has been told repeatedly that their computer is safe from viruses, that it "just works," and that they don't need to be concerned with computer threats of any kind...it's Apple users. Sitting in their offices, wearing their turtlenecks and sipping their lattes, the only thing about phishing they've heard about is that it happens to other people. Uglier people. They're not used to having to defend themselves, not like Windows users. Windows users have a battle-scarred paranoia...they've seen worms that can rewrite their BIOS, steal their credit cards, and kidnap their firstborn. Their 50 yard stares have been earned by fixing their mom's computer for the eighth time this month, and damnit if they're going to lose another computer to some Ethiopian scammer...not after the last time. Their nightmares are the stuff of Steven King novels, the earlier stuff with lovecraftian clowns and superplagues that are the start of apocalyptic battles between good and evil. Their best days on the internet involve life and death struggles against the next pop-up, because it might be their last. Ironically, Mac users have never had to live with the terror that clicking on that "win a free iPod" might just cause their computer to explode, spamming their grandmother with anal tranny porn on its way out. Maybe it's time they should......wait, what the hell was I talking about?
So what everybody is telling me is that Java dominates in the internal custom server app market? We have a timecard system written in Java. I didn't really think about.
How about programs meant to be downloaded and ran by Joe Consumer? Are those normally C# and C++?
I hear everybody mentioning Java being the top programming language, and reputable sites everywhere seem to agree.
However, where is all this Java being used? Every program I use (when source is available) seems to be C++, a.NET language, or PHP/Perl/Python/ASP for websites.
Are all these developers compiling the bytecode to native code when they distribute? Where are the results for this huge demand for Java?
Please don't mark me off-topic or peg me as astroturfing. I am saying explicitly that I wrote this site. This is my own vision of social searching, and I am putting it here because it's the topic of the article:
Essentially, you type "g" to search google, "y" to search yahoo, etc. You can add and take away from the defaults. You can share, grab from other users, discuss sites, etc (that's the social aspect). You also get your own no-login-needed homepage to jump to sites. You can then add your own search box to your Firefox search box (the site performs suggestions too).
Other aspects: -There are minimal ads.. a grand total of 2 in the entire site... and not on your custom home page.
-Absolutely no email address is needed and never will be.
It is still in alpha too (site is about 5 days old), but what do you think? I'm pretty proud of it. I'm using mod-rewrite, AJAX, JSON, XML, etc. I learned a lot from making it. I am not making a dime off this site. My real business is hosting.
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As a web developer, I get asked quite a bit about AJAX frameworks/code libraries. I have nothing but praise for jQuery. Here's my take on some of the major players:
1. YUI has been object-oriented to the point of uselessness. Everything requires YAHOO.blah.blah.blah(YAHOO.EventUtil.blah.blah.blah), and then they want you to have another line with YAHOO.AddListener.blah.blah(yourFunction) to add it to the execution list. I like objects. Wait, let me clarify, I like MY objects! I stopped doing what they asked and starting writing wrapper functions to their functions.
2. GWT requires a zillion steps. I spent half a day installing a Java IDE and compiler and running example projects to see how to use it. Perhaps this is useful for massive projects like Gmail, but for the rest of us who are just looking to add a few effects, instead of writing Java to generate JavaScript, you are better off just writing the JavaScript directly.
3. The Scriptaculous documentation seemed nonexistent. I was trying to find meaty documentation, and every page was essentially "LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!1!11"
In short:
1. YUI has a zillion files and still leaves you writing tedious DOM and your HTML ugly. They DO have some good stuff, which I will get to later.
2. GWT is like installing MS Word when you all needed was a good text editor.
3. Scriptaculous will leave you hanging.
(Side Note: I was just learning DOM when I tried out Scriptaculous. The bad taste may be the learning curve all beginner's must go through).
My recommendation:
-Go with jQuery + YUI's "reset-fonts-grids.css" file.
That YUI css file will reset all the browser defaults to an even layout saving you tons cross-browser tweaking. (Some things I disagree with though, like no bullets or numbers on your UL and OL tags. Still worth it though.) YUI Grids also has some nice templates to help you with div-based layouts. They have a few added extras too beyond just JavaScript code libraries.
jQuery is simply the most elegant and concise JavaScript library I've found. The idea behind it, "find this, and then do that", is great. The code looks simple, and your HTML code is left clean! People have developed modules for it too, so I may can replace my YUI added extras and just worry about 1 code library.
I bought a laptop from Dell (back when all they sold was Vista). I wanted a gig of RAM, and upgrading to a gig of RAM gave me a free upgrade to Vista Premium, so I went and took it.
Therefore, I got Vista Premium without actually caring about Vista. I imagine there are others that are the same.
GameCube wasn't a failure. It was a profitable system for Nintendo, and as far as I know, everybody that bought one doesn't regret their purchase either.
If Nintendo wanted to be #1, then it failed. If Nintendo's goal was to make a profit, then it was more successful than MS's Xbox.
My dad told me he is waiting for Vista to release before he buys a new computer. He uses dial-up AOL, and he loves sports on his big HD TV.
Slashdotters may not care, but I don't think my dad is the only one that falls in to that group of people eagerly waiting to give more money to Microsoft.
2 months after finishing college and starting a new job in a new area, I woke up one morning with an odd stomach pain. I didn't think anything of it, so I went to work. By lunch time, the pain did not relax at all. It didn't get worse... just a steady piercing pain. I told a co-worker I was taking a half day. By 5pm, I was starting to get really worried because this was not a normal feeling stomach pain, and it was still there.
I went to Google and typed in stomach pain, and that's when I was starting to really get worried. Several websites started directing me to Appendicitis. After reading more, I had all the Appendicitis symptoms except "nauseated". I called a friend, and he said, "Nah, man! It's probably just something you ate! You said you aren't feeling nauseated, right? I'd wait until you were nauseated."
I had crappy insurance. I didn't want to go to the hospital unless I needed to, but since everything I read online was pointing to Appendicitis, I eventually decided that peace of mind was worth an out-of-pocket exam, so I jumped in the car and drove myself to the ER.
I went to the front desk, and he asked, "What do you think is wrong?" I said, "I think I have Appendicitis." "All right, fill this out and sit over there."
When I got to finally see a nurse, I said, "I think I have Appendicitis." "Does this hurt?" "Yes."
When I got to finally a doctor, I said, "I think I have Appendicitis." "We'll run some tests."
They ran a blood test. Came back positive. They ran some x-ray type test. Came back positive.
By 10pm, the doctor came and said, "You have Appendicitis." By 5am, they were operating on me.
After one flaming bag of pus removed, and ~$5,000 worth of medical debt, I spent the next week on disability leave playing Final Fantasy X in my apartment. Good game, btw.
Would you rather your son come home and say, "Mom, Dad. I got this girl pregnant." or "Mom, Dad. I got in a fight with so-and-so."
I would say most parents fear the 1st scenario way more. Fights are temporary and can be dealt with via some good old fashion discipline. Illegit kids are FOREVER, and guess who will be paying for them? The PARENTS! Mr. teenager can't afford a kid!
I would also argue that people tend to avoid fights, because pain is not generally fun, but there are raging, hard to ignore, hormones driving us to have sex, and sex IS fun!
A dream come true would be for parents to be able to turn off their kids' hormones until they finish college and have a job. The first step is to eliminate all sexual stimuli, no matter how minor, like "Hot Coffee" and moving everything to an easily bannable.xxx.
Not that it would do any good, probably just make things worse, but I'm just trying to see it from their side. Looking at it this way, I can see how they'd believe sex is worse than violence.
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At a place I used to work, one of my coworkers reported a simple potential security problem: the username for the admin account on all our machines is the same as the computer's name. This just eliminates one less thing for a hacker to figure out. He was accused of "snooping", whatever that means, and almost lost his job. The only thing that saved him is a higher-up with a brain.
Whenever I hear a story about a person\firm reporting security risks, I am reminded of the story of my coworker, and I have heard too many similiar stories. It has trained to me keep my mouth shut about these problems.
More like an iPod Touch that won't fit in your pocket. There's no phone. I'd've been be much, much more impressed if it ran Mac OS X and not iPhone OS. That decision greatly cripples what the device can do.
I'm not impressed seeing the Facebook iPhone app running on it. I can run the full-version Facebook in Firefox on my $300 netbook. However, I suppose I can't install iFart on my netbook, but I'm sure I could find a worthwhile desktop replacement for that. At least I have that option. I'm not tied to the App store like the iPad. There's no Flash either. That means there is no Hulu on any other flash-based content streaming service.
This is an expensive netbook without software customization and without a keyboard. No thanks.
I've noticed that RequestPolicy...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9727/
requires much less management. NoScript constantly updates and constantly requires white-listing sites to be able to use them. RequestPolicy defaults to denying just the off-site JavaScript, which is the JavaScript I care the most to deny.
Well, if there's group of users that has been told repeatedly that their computer is safe from viruses, that it "just works," and that they don't need to be concerned with computer threats of any kind...it's Apple users. Sitting in their offices, wearing their turtlenecks and sipping their lattes, the only thing about phishing they've heard about is that it happens to other people. Uglier people. They're not used to having to defend themselves, not like Windows users. Windows users have a battle-scarred paranoia...they've seen worms that can rewrite their BIOS, steal their credit cards, and kidnap their firstborn. Their 50 yard stares have been earned by fixing their mom's computer for the eighth time this month, and damnit if they're going to lose another computer to some Ethiopian scammer...not after the last time. Their nightmares are the stuff of Steven King novels, the earlier stuff with lovecraftian clowns and superplagues that are the start of apocalyptic battles between good and evil. Their best days on the internet involve life and death struggles against the next pop-up, because it might be their last. Ironically, Mac users have never had to live with the terror that clicking on that "win a free iPod" might just cause their computer to explode, spamming their grandmother with anal tranny porn on its way out. Maybe it's time they should... ...wait, what the hell was I talking about?
See this for a fascinating read about manipulating photographs throughout history.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/
So what everybody is telling me is that Java dominates in the internal custom server app market? We have a timecard system written in Java. I didn't really think about.
How about programs meant to be downloaded and ran by Joe Consumer? Are those normally C# and C++?
Thanks for the responses.
I hear everybody mentioning Java being the top programming language, and reputable sites everywhere seem to agree.
However, where is all this Java being used? Every program I use (when source is available) seems to be C++, a .NET language, or PHP/Perl/Python/ASP for websites.
Are all these developers compiling the bytecode to native code when they distribute? Where are the results for this huge demand for Java?
Thanks,
Danny
What I don't understand about acquisitions is this...
Say Microsoft buys Yahoo for $45 billion. That money goes in to Yahoo's reserves. Deal is over, and now Microsoft now owns Yahoo.
But since Microsoft now owns Yahoo, doesn't Microsoft now own that $45 billion it just gave to Yahoo?
Am I missing something?
I'm not seeing the bug. i try live tree... and i get live.com's results for tree. What browser are you using?
Please don't mark me off-topic or peg me as astroturfing. I am saying explicitly that I wrote this site. This is my own vision of social searching, and I am putting it here because it's the topic of the article:
http://jumphunt.com/
Essentially, you type "g" to search google, "y" to search yahoo, etc. You can add and take away from the defaults. You can share, grab from other users, discuss sites, etc (that's the social aspect). You also get your own no-login-needed homepage to jump to sites. You can then add your own search box to your Firefox search box (the site performs suggestions too).
Other aspects:
-There are minimal ads.. a grand total of 2 in the entire site... and not on your custom home page.
-Absolutely no email address is needed and never will be.
It is still in alpha too (site is about 5 days old), but what do you think? I'm pretty proud of it. I'm using mod-rewrite, AJAX, JSON, XML, etc. I learned a lot from making it. I am not making a dime off this site. My real business is hosting.
Hope you enjoy,
-Dan
The Scriptaculous code libraries were built upon Prototype. If you download Scriptaculous, you will be required to get Prototype.
-Dan
It has.
It's called http://www.legalzoom.com/
Take a look. These services aren't hard to find.
As a web developer, I get asked quite a bit about AJAX frameworks/code libraries. I have nothing but praise for jQuery. Here's my take on some of the major players:
1. YUI has been object-oriented to the point of uselessness. Everything requires YAHOO.blah.blah.blah(YAHOO.EventUtil.blah.blah.blah), and then they want you to have another line with YAHOO.AddListener.blah.blah(yourFunction) to add it to the execution list. I like objects. Wait, let me clarify, I like MY objects! I stopped doing what they asked and starting writing wrapper functions to their functions.
2. GWT requires a zillion steps. I spent half a day installing a Java IDE and compiler and running example projects to see how to use it. Perhaps this is useful for massive projects like Gmail, but for the rest of us who are just looking to add a few effects, instead of writing Java to generate JavaScript, you are better off just writing the JavaScript directly.
3. The Scriptaculous documentation seemed nonexistent. I was trying to find meaty documentation, and every page was essentially "LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!1!11"
In short:
1. YUI has a zillion files and still leaves you writing tedious DOM and your HTML ugly. They DO have some good stuff, which I will get to later.
2. GWT is like installing MS Word when you all needed was a good text editor.
3. Scriptaculous will leave you hanging.
(Side Note: I was just learning DOM when I tried out Scriptaculous. The bad taste may be the learning curve all beginner's must go through).
My recommendation:
-Go with jQuery + YUI's "reset-fonts-grids.css" file.
That YUI css file will reset all the browser defaults to an even layout saving you tons cross-browser tweaking. (Some things I disagree with though, like no bullets or numbers on your UL and OL tags. Still worth it though.) YUI Grids also has some nice templates to help you with div-based layouts. They have a few added extras too beyond just JavaScript code libraries.
jQuery is simply the most elegant and concise JavaScript library I've found. The idea behind it, "find this, and then do that", is great. The code looks simple, and your HTML code is left clean! People have developed modules for it too, so I may can replace my YUI added extras and just worry about 1 code library.
Hope that helps someone,
Dan
I bought a laptop from Dell (back when all they sold was Vista). I wanted a gig of RAM, and upgrading to a gig of RAM gave me a free upgrade to Vista Premium, so I went and took it.
Therefore, I got Vista Premium without actually caring about Vista. I imagine there are others that are the same.
GameCube wasn't a failure. It was a profitable system for Nintendo, and as far as I know, everybody that bought one doesn't regret their purchase either.
If Nintendo wanted to be #1, then it failed. If Nintendo's goal was to make a profit, then it was more successful than MS's Xbox.
I'm buying Vista, and there is only one reason why:
1. My software company requires that I support it.
I need it to test the software will run on it. Other than that, I have zero use for it. I imagine people are in the same boat as me.
Computer sales will pick up.
My dad told me he is waiting for Vista to release before he buys a new computer. He uses dial-up AOL, and he loves sports on his big HD TV.
Slashdotters may not care, but I don't think my dad is the only one that falls in to that group of people eagerly waiting to give more money to Microsoft.
This happened Feb, 2003.
2 months after finishing college and starting a new job in a new area, I woke up one morning with an odd stomach pain. I didn't think anything of it, so I went to work. By lunch time, the pain did not relax at all. It didn't get worse... just a steady piercing pain. I told a co-worker I was taking a half day. By 5pm, I was starting to get really worried because this was not a normal feeling stomach pain, and it was still there.
I went to Google and typed in stomach pain, and that's when I was starting to really get worried. Several websites started directing me to Appendicitis. After reading more, I had all the Appendicitis symptoms except "nauseated". I called a friend, and he said, "Nah, man! It's probably just something you ate! You said you aren't feeling nauseated, right? I'd wait until you were nauseated."
I had crappy insurance. I didn't want to go to the hospital unless I needed to, but since everything I read online was pointing to Appendicitis, I eventually decided that peace of mind was worth an out-of-pocket exam, so I jumped in the car and drove myself to the ER.
I went to the front desk, and he asked, "What do you think is wrong?"
I said, "I think I have Appendicitis."
"All right, fill this out and sit over there."
When I got to finally see a nurse, I said, "I think I have Appendicitis."
"Does this hurt?" "Yes."
When I got to finally a doctor, I said, "I think I have Appendicitis."
"We'll run some tests."
They ran a blood test. Came back positive.
They ran some x-ray type test. Came back positive.
By 10pm, the doctor came and said, "You have Appendicitis." By 5am, they were operating on me.
After one flaming bag of pus removed, and ~$5,000 worth of medical debt, I spent the next week on disability leave playing Final Fantasy X in my apartment. Good game, btw.
There is a difference.
.xxx.
Would you rather your son come home and say, "Mom, Dad. I got this girl pregnant." or "Mom, Dad. I got in a fight with so-and-so."
I would say most parents fear the 1st scenario way more. Fights are temporary and can be dealt with via some good old fashion discipline. Illegit kids are FOREVER, and guess who will be paying for them? The PARENTS! Mr. teenager can't afford a kid!
I would also argue that people tend to avoid fights, because pain is not generally fun, but there are raging, hard to ignore, hormones driving us to have sex, and sex IS fun!
A dream come true would be for parents to be able to turn off their kids' hormones until they finish college and have a job. The first step is to eliminate all sexual stimuli, no matter how minor, like "Hot Coffee" and moving everything to an easily bannable
Not that it would do any good, probably just make things worse, but I'm just trying to see it from their side. Looking at it this way, I can see how they'd believe sex is worse than violence.