IMHO, Mac is a bigger threat to Linux than Windows/Vista/XP ever was or will be.
For the longest time, I wanted to move to a *nix OS. I kept trying ubuntu, FreeBSD and the likes, only to switch back to XP because of office apps and all business were using stuff like Office Suite of apps. Further, tried Cinerella for my video editing on Linux, it has potential, thats all I will say.
Recently got a Mac (some say I switched to the dark side). Interestingly, I find it has all that I need and nothing I don't. Best of both worlds (*nix, Windows etC). I have my *nix, I have my office apps and I have my video editing. My wife has no issues using it either.
Man, Let me tell you, Viruses have evolved. Really evolved. I don't run a anti-virus at home, don't like them.
In a moment of weekness I started watching a downloaded version of stargate, missed it on friday:( the WMV movie asked for a "codec" to be installed, guess what... (I know I should have know better)
Its been 4 weeks and I am still struggling with this virus. Most virus scanners detect this beast, however in my last 4 weeks, none can properly clean it. This has become somewhat of a challenge.
I have discovered so far, that - it is installed as windows driver, - this driver gets notified at winlogon - the driver creates a exe - the exe executes and stays in memory - the virus driver file then mutates and goes elsewhere, again to come back at the next logon, this mutation is what virus scanners can't work with. - Spreads via Windows networking to other computers on the network, this however only if the other computers have any shared writable folders.
Yesterday, I discovered, the crappy thing downloads and installs stuff off the internet.
Fortunately I have all data backed up.
I can re-install my XP anytime, but this has become too challanging to let go.
Here is a kicker, I tried infecting a qemu emulated XP VM, guess what, there is a newer version of the virus, somewhat different than 4 weeks ago. The new codec that downloaded wasn't the same that got downloaded to my machine.
So it seems these virus/trojan developers are well funded and doing this as a day job. Hoping this trojan shares some mp3s so RIAA can go after them, they seem to be more effective than FBI in tracking this kind of a thing.
Here to some good news, my dad's Vista PC is immune to this virus, so Microsoft may have done something right, or maybe the virus/trojan developers are not targeting Vista.
Besides the BBQ, we can finally rest the issue of global warming killing off various species. Dodo bird gone, no problem, we will just clone new ones. In fact, lets clone a few extra so I can have dodo meat on thanksgiving.
No animals were harmed while writing this comment.
I second that, I live in Canada. We get free physical once a year, blood work twice a year and free flu shots. I only get flu shots cause a nurse comes to my workplace and and our admin schedules our time, so when my outlook pops up saying I have flu vaccine waiting, I go.
However my last physical/blood work was over 5 years ago. Part of the problem is the damn clinic opens during business hours.
I have seen electronic voting machines in India, they seem lower tech than fancy voting machines from the US, however they work, they are like a keyboard, each key has a label next to it. an LED lights up registering your vote when you click them, its simple and it works.
When you click them, you know what key you have clicked and who you have voted for.
I think online gaming would be excellent for someone feeling lonely and depressed. I have played my share of online games, have community friends. For the duration that I'm playing, it feels as if I am not in my mom's basement and out there, with friends.
After all, my mom's policy on sex in the house is similar to that of NASA, albeit in space.
I had some experience with this. Our company was hired to make an ancient insurance system modern, Java/Hibernate/spring, the works.
Turns out they have claims being processed round the clock, some back from the 70s related to asbestos poisoning. When we incorporated federal guideline requirements, turned out there was no way we could migrate from the old system to the new system. Not easily anyway. Further, this COBOL system had years of federal guidelines coded in. 25 odd years of federal policy changes. Very very bad if-then-else code in COBOL, ouch.
The database was something in DB2, not much of relational. It had evolved for the same time period, 25 years or so. Was a absolute mess.
At the end of the day, no one knew the requirements, no one in the company was there for the last 25 years looking at this system. They basically said, here is the system, here is the money, re-write it in Java. Further migration would have been a mess and could have potentially exposed the Insurance company to lawsuits.
So. In the end, we wrote a scraper that converted their Text UI to a Web UI. It had a bit of DB access but mostly just scrapped text and translated Web events to Text UI events.
The main motivation for the company was cost involved in training their agents and other users of the system.
a better solution would be that the employee is not tied to the employer, once in US he/she can freely transfer his visa to any other company. this way they will be forced to play at the market wages and use the h1-b program when they truly cannot find local talent.
sorry too late in night to worry punctuations and proper case.
Nope, you are absolutely wrong. Recently, I read a study, can't seem to locate it now.
It said that those who smoke and eat fries die early, if they are lucky in mid sixties. The other group, the healthy kind that live to 80s and 90s are the real burden on the health system.
If you look at expenditure on health over a lifetime, the unhealthy kind are cheaper as they get sick die quick. The healthy kind cost more.
So go grab that Big mac with large fries and a shake.
In general you are being over paranoid, I look very middle eastern. I have been pulled aside a lot of times, once even 3 times on the same flight (talk about profiling). Anyhow, never have they looked at my laptop. They do often ask me to boot while passing through a X-ray scanner, however on the other end I just turn it off and slip it in my bag.
Further, I carry a PDA phone, has a 8GB microSD card in it, never have they looked at that.
If I was carrying nude pics of my girlfriend/wife (both), I would just encrypt them, put them on a SD card and slip it in my pocket or wallet. Of coarse, that is if I'm unable to upload them from my vacation to my online drive/server. In the later case, I just wouldn't carry them on me personally.
Alternately, I would encrypt them and slip the card back in my camera.
Having said all that, this comment may not even see the daylight.
Try taking your car off a snow bank with traction control on. The system keeps sucking the power from the wheels as soon as they slip, its a nightmare, the only way to move the car off a snow bank is with wheels spinning and traction control off.
IANAP, (I'm not a physicist), however, I think they are looking for a naked black hole at the wrong scale. They should be looking for naked black holes at the miniature scale, where the matter is so compact that it is classified as a black hole, however mass of such black hole is so small that it does not exert sufficient gravitational pull. Say the kind predicted within the LHC.
I don't find anything funny in this statement. Not sure if everyone has karma to burn or what, how come this comment got +4 Funny!
There are a substantial amount of Muslim's in the IT world who visit slashdot, myself included. And how the hell a country of 20 million Muslim represent 1.6 billion Muslims is beyond me!
There are 53 million muslim's in europe alone, a majority of them would be a more preferable example of Muslim's.
Few border line terrorist creating stereotypes and a few border line folks from the west creating stereotypes, screwing up things for the rest.
This is what I have always wondered, most space elevator articles talk about active climbing. My question is, what then do we gain from the tether, if we can do this active climb for cheap, we can do it without the tether and replace current rockets with this active climb technology!
Real world comprises of transactions, security, fault-tolerance, uptime and databases to name a few. Those excellent examples have no real world quality, except maybe demonstrate a bit of distributed programming.....
Well at the right time too, with the economy the way it is, no point going there for business, there are better places to find business.
As for pleasure, US really doesn't offer anything unique, there are better, safer (safe from authorities on a power trip) and cheaper destinations to spend your money.
I have a feeling this is Microsoft's attempt to fight Java/J2EE in the enterprise. Microsoft has been pushing.NET, however their Achilles heal is the fact that they can't run on anything half decent. All the mean hardware platforms run non Microsoft OSes,.NET is rejected before it is even evaluated.
With this kind of a platform,.NET can finally run off some serious hardware. The H/W price point is also reasonable for this kind of a market.
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...grow up as well rounded people...
People, well rounded! Are you talking about physical appearance, cause if not, this just makes no sense.
Can I have a dodo this Thanksgiving
IMHO, Mac is a bigger threat to Linux than Windows/Vista/XP ever was or will be.
For the longest time, I wanted to move to a *nix OS. I kept trying ubuntu, FreeBSD and the likes, only to switch back to XP because of office apps and all business were using stuff like Office Suite of apps. Further, tried Cinerella for my video editing on Linux, it has potential, thats all I will say.
Recently got a Mac (some say I switched to the dark side). Interestingly, I find it has all that I need and nothing I don't. Best of both worlds (*nix, Windows etC). I have my *nix, I have my office apps and I have my video editing. My wife has no issues using it either.
"The copyright for the content is held by 'Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501c(4) organization'."
Did any one else think it read, "The copyright for the content is held by 'Osama-Bin Laden Transition Project, a 501c(4) organization'."
Man, Let me tell you, Viruses have evolved. Really evolved. I don't run a anti-virus at home, don't like them.
In a moment of weekness I started watching a downloaded version of stargate, missed it on friday :( the WMV movie asked for a "codec" to be installed, guess what... (I know I should have know better)
Its been 4 weeks and I am still struggling with this virus. Most virus scanners detect this beast, however in my last 4 weeks, none can properly clean it. This has become somewhat of a challenge.
I have discovered so far, that
- it is installed as windows driver,
- this driver gets notified at winlogon
- the driver creates a exe
- the exe executes and stays in memory
- the virus driver file then mutates and goes elsewhere, again to come back at the next logon, this mutation is what virus scanners can't work with.
- Spreads via Windows networking to other computers on the network, this however only if the other computers have any shared writable folders.
Yesterday, I discovered, the crappy thing downloads and installs stuff off the internet.
Fortunately I have all data backed up.
I can re-install my XP anytime, but this has become too challanging to let go.
Here is a kicker, I tried infecting a qemu emulated XP VM, guess what, there is a newer version of the virus, somewhat different than 4 weeks ago. The new codec that downloaded wasn't the same that got downloaded to my machine.
So it seems these virus/trojan developers are well funded and doing this as a day job. Hoping this trojan shares some mp3s so RIAA can go after them, they seem to be more effective than FBI in tracking this kind of a thing.
Here to some good news, my dad's Vista PC is immune to this virus, so Microsoft may have done something right, or maybe the virus/trojan developers are not targeting Vista.
Besides the BBQ, we can finally rest the issue of global warming killing off various species. Dodo bird gone, no problem, we will just clone new ones. In fact, lets clone a few extra so I can have dodo meat on thanksgiving.
No animals were harmed while writing this comment.
I second that, I live in Canada. We get free physical once a year, blood work twice a year and free flu shots. I only get flu shots cause a nurse comes to my workplace and and our admin schedules our time, so when my outlook pops up saying I have flu vaccine waiting, I go.
However my last physical/blood work was over 5 years ago. Part of the problem is the damn clinic opens during business hours.
I have seen electronic voting machines in India, they seem lower tech than fancy voting machines from the US, however they work, they are like a keyboard, each key has a label next to it. an LED lights up registering your vote when you click them, its simple and it works.
When you click them, you know what key you have clicked and who you have voted for.
picture here http://www.bel-india.com/BELWebsite/images/EVM.jpg
I think online gaming would be excellent for someone feeling lonely and depressed. I have played my share of online games, have community friends. For the duration that I'm playing, it feels as if I am not in my mom's basement and out there, with friends.
After all, my mom's policy on sex in the house is similar to that of NASA, albeit in space.
I had some experience with this. Our company was hired to make an ancient insurance system modern, Java/Hibernate/spring, the works.
Turns out they have claims being processed round the clock, some back from the 70s related to asbestos poisoning. When we incorporated federal guideline requirements, turned out there was no way we could migrate from the old system to the new system. Not easily anyway. Further, this COBOL system had years of federal guidelines coded in. 25 odd years of federal policy changes. Very very bad if-then-else code in COBOL, ouch.
The database was something in DB2, not much of relational. It had evolved for the same time period, 25 years or so. Was a absolute mess.
At the end of the day, no one knew the requirements, no one in the company was there for the last 25 years looking at this system. They basically said, here is the system, here is the money, re-write it in Java. Further migration would have been a mess and could have potentially exposed the Insurance company to lawsuits.
So. In the end, we wrote a scraper that converted their Text UI to a Web UI. It had a bit of DB access but mostly just scrapped text and translated Web events to Text UI events.
The main motivation for the company was cost involved in training their agents and other users of the system.
Just make sure the mainframe is energy star rated. You don't want it trickling electricity when in sleep mode....
If you do buy one, let me know, I wanna start up a hydro business in your neighborhood.
a better solution would be that the employee is not tied to the employer, once in US he/she can freely transfer his visa to any other company. this way they will be forced to play at the market wages and use the h1-b program when they truly cannot find local talent.
sorry too late in night to worry punctuations and proper case.
oops, sorry, I said the same thing you did, didn't read "discouraging". Too early on a Friday morning.
Nope, you are absolutely wrong. Recently, I read a study, can't seem to locate it now.
It said that those who smoke and eat fries die early, if they are lucky in mid sixties. The other group, the healthy kind that live to 80s and 90s are the real burden on the health system.
If you look at expenditure on health over a lifetime, the unhealthy kind are cheaper as they get sick die quick. The healthy kind cost more.
So go grab that Big mac with large fries and a shake.
In general you are being over paranoid, I look very middle eastern. I have been pulled aside a lot of times, once even 3 times on the same flight (talk about profiling). Anyhow, never have they looked at my laptop. They do often ask me to boot while passing through a X-ray scanner, however on the other end I just turn it off and slip it in my bag.
Further, I carry a PDA phone, has a 8GB microSD card in it, never have they looked at that.
If I was carrying nude pics of my girlfriend/wife (both), I would just encrypt them, put them on a SD card and slip it in my pocket or wallet. Of coarse, that is if I'm unable to upload them from my vacation to my online drive/server. In the later case, I just wouldn't carry them on me personally.
Alternately, I would encrypt them and slip the card back in my camera.
Having said all that, this comment may not even see the daylight.
Don't you wish you had patented the idea.
Well if you don't, I still wish I had.
Something tells me you haven't driven on snow, or at least been stuck in it, the only way out is wheels spinning.
Try taking your car off a snow bank with traction control on. The system keeps sucking the power from the wheels as soon as they slip, its a nightmare, the only way to move the car off a snow bank is with wheels spinning and traction control off.
Oh Canada!
IANAP, (I'm not a physicist), however, I think they are looking for a naked black hole at the wrong scale. They should be looking for naked black holes at the miniature scale, where the matter is so compact that it is classified as a black hole, however mass of such black hole is so small that it does not exert sufficient gravitational pull. Say the kind predicted within the LHC.
I don't find anything funny in this statement. Not sure if everyone has karma to burn or what, how come this comment got +4 Funny!
There are a substantial amount of Muslim's in the IT world who visit slashdot, myself included. And how the hell a country of 20 million Muslim represent 1.6 billion Muslims is beyond me!
There are 53 million muslim's in europe alone, a majority of them would be a more preferable example of Muslim's.
Few border line terrorist creating stereotypes and a few border line folks from the west creating stereotypes, screwing up things for the rest.
This is what I have always wondered, most space elevator articles talk about active climbing. My question is, what then do we gain from the tether, if we can do this active climb for cheap, we can do it without the tether and replace current rockets with this active climb technology!
Real world comprises of transactions, security, fault-tolerance, uptime and databases to name a few. Those excellent examples have no real world quality, except maybe demonstrate a bit of distributed programming.....
Well at the right time too, with the economy the way it is, no point going there for business, there are better places to find business.
As for pleasure, US really doesn't offer anything unique, there are better, safer (safe from authorities on a power trip) and cheaper destinations to spend your money.
I have a feeling this is Microsoft's attempt to fight Java/J2EE in the enterprise. Microsoft has been pushing .NET, however their Achilles heal is the fact that they can't run on anything half decent. All the mean hardware platforms run non Microsoft OSes, .NET is rejected before it is even evaluated.
With this kind of a platform, .NET can finally run off some serious hardware. The H/W price point is also reasonable for this kind of a market.
Correction, its an alien civilization that just did their first experiment on the LHC.