It uses parts of information from the page like the domain name coupled with your master password (which only you know and never gets transmitted, or even stored in memory, if you like) to create a hash from an alphabet based on your specifications to create a unique password for every site. You can even have multiple passwords per site if you throw in things like the username and such. Pretty slick and configurable app. Has plugins for Firefox, IE, and even a web based form if you're using it in a cafe.
But those are the docs and specs for the Microsoft knee jerk reaction "Open XML" documents, not the existing.doc,.xls, etc. files that people have billions and billions of stashed on their hard drives around the world.
While I don't disagree with taxes, I do disagree with the way taxes are applied. Taxes are targeted towards groups of individuals when somebody realizes "oh, wow, there's a lot of money being spent over there, let's tax it!" Generally, then, some people end up getting taxed more than others. Then again, there are all kinds of ways for people with money to get out of paying taxes by using tax shelters, special programs, etc. that general middle to low class people can't afford to invest in.
The solution? Good question, there, but I generally thought the "flat tax" was a good idea. The federal sales tax seemed like a good idea, too, as long as it would be small (1 to 2 percent) and applied to everything in general.
Taxes are weird though. Why is it (depending on your locality, of course) that taxes for goods are generally 5 to 8 percent, but taxes on gasoline are more on the order of 12 to 20 percent? In the area I live in, the taxes on a gallon of gas are about 40 cents. That's like 20 percent!
And I'm pretty damn sure it's still Dec 1 somewhere. It's December 1 by my clock, and it's on UTC, even, and just by virture of that, I will vehemently contest that your statement of "Dec 1 is over" is incorrect.
Granted, if they were promoting a Dec 1 release date, I'd think it would have been released at the BEGINNING of Dec 1, not the end.
Yep - I can think of at least one legitimate use for me. Working for a large nameless and faceless corporation, they do content filtering on the firewall and sometimes some suprising things get blocked. The FreeTDS site was blocked for some dumb reason, for example. Being a UNIX system administrator, I do a lot of research on security and hacking methods (I wear a white hat, for sure) and frequently get blocked by the firewall because I'm looking up stuff on sites it labels as "hacking related". I mean, duh, the crackers and script kiddies can get to all the information about how to compromise my systems, but I can't see the same information to figure out how to safeguard them?
I could set up my own authenticated server on my home box (Ubuntu) and proxy through it for unfettered access. Granted there'd be a speed hit because of the upload limit on the cable box, but it'd be better than having to send myself notes to download stuff at home and bring it back to work the next day on my pen drive.
I wouldn't be surprised if executives are required to wire themselves and keep the tape running any time they are talking to any employee, client, or anyone else relating to business matters. The company would have to keep the tapes for 2 years, or longer if certain topics were discussed or litigation is expected.
I've actually had that conversation with the bean counters, but it went like this:
Techie: We need $5,000 to buy another 100 DLT tapes to comply with this no-rewrite order. Bean Counter: Again! We don't have any money in the budget to buy any more tapes Techie: Ok, no problem. Send me an email and CC your boss and my boss and tell them that we can not comply to this federal ruling because we don't have any money in the budget. Bean Counter: Erm.. Uh.. Oh! Here's some money for tapes you can have.
As long as the gun is pointing at them, they are very cooperative.
I second the parent. Working for a company that's under one of those rules currently (because of some litigation or another), we're under a "do not rewrite" order. The entire - and very large - corporation. Just in my little corner of the world, we're ordering about 50 DLT tapes a month to keep up. We're actually spending about 100K on new tape drives just so the storage per tape (and hence the amount of tapes we have to buy every month) goes down.
At least TFA says it's only for companies that are currently undergoing federal litigation.
Speaking as an Oracle dba of 9 years, if your DBA's have to tweak the database daily, you need to fire them and hire some new ones that know what they are doing. I've got Oracle databases that run for years with little or no tweaking (aside from the mandatory critical patch bundles from Oracle)
Even if they are dealing with crappy vendor supplied SQL in a canned application, that should only take a few months to line out after each new version of the canned app. After that, it should just run.
Agree. The RDBMS itself is a small part of the actuall delivered stack of code that delivers a wide range of functionality.
Plus.. Number of times MSSQL Server (a.k.a Sybase fork) has brought my larg organizations IT infrastructure to it's knees - 1. Number of times Oracle has done the same - 0. And we've been running Oracle a LOT longer (mid 80's, I think) than we have MSSQL Server.
I second that. There are tons of places at my current employer where the same problems exist. Old processes that nobody want's take the time to streamline. The main issue? If you ask them, it's already streamlined, they just don't see that it can be made better for lack of vision. "But it is automated! We take this data, load it into Excel, massage it with this Access database, upload it to Oracle, then download it into this other tool... etc, etc."
Biggest problem? People that think they are "programmers" and "database developers" because they can use VBA in Excel or crete a form an report in Access on top of some hideous schema that probably makes Mr. Codd spin in his grave at 7200 RPM.
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And, as a followup to your question, the answer is "yes".
Check out HP and Yahoo! in a "view source" window. Lots of "div" tags and not any "table" tags that I could see in a casual glance.
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Why is a valid question modded as funny? Anybody got some mod points left, change this to informative (even though, technically, it's interrogative).
And to add my 0.02 to the question, it's that people don't want to take the time to figure out a decent design within the constraints of currenly supported CSS. You can do just about any design in CSS you can with tables, but not all of them (maybe 98%). The end result is, of course, smaller, easier to modify and modular enough to take apart and put back together in a different design without having to fight the nightmare of trying to move a table cell in a table without whacking the whole design to hell.
EXS is cheap, when you consider you can run 10 servers on one piece of hardware. 10 servers: 50,000 bucks. One server + ESX: 10,000 bucks. That's an 80% savings.
Wow.. Nice to see people whip out the racism card as the first response. My first thought after reading it was "Ah.. an oblique 'Airplane' reference". Are you saying Airplane was racist as well?
Friends house.. Internet Cafe..
Bottom line, you can't monitor your kids 24x7 - it's impossible. They have to be aware of the dangers enough to make intelligent decisions on their own. If they are smart enough to figure out how to get around all the blocks that get put in their way, they should be smart enough to understand the dangers and involve somebody they trust (a parent/grownup/teacher type person) at that point.
And on an interesting note, if you save that as a PNG file (Gimp - compression set to 9) you get a 13.3K image. The original example GIF from that page was 180K (although the page author admits that GIFs with > 256 colors don't use LZW compression). The same file, saved as a GIF quantized to 256 colors ends up as 24.3K. Same number of pixels, but in this case the PNG has more bits per pixel and STILL ends up with a smaller file.
I'm sold...
Looks pretty solid, just be aware that it'll only take half height PCI cards which limits what you can do with it, IMO. As a MythTV box, it'll pretty much be just a front end, with your back end located somewhere else, since most of the higher end capture cards (a la Hauppage) are full height PCI cards.
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If you're on a 100G network by yourself, then correct. If there are a thousand other computers going through the same backbone, then maybe not.
There's always the downloaded version.
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Try PasswordMaker.
It uses parts of information from the page like the domain name coupled with your master password (which only you know and never gets transmitted, or even stored in memory, if you like) to create a hash from an alphabet based on your specifications to create a unique password for every site. You can even have multiple passwords per site if you throw in things like the username and such. Pretty slick and configurable app. Has plugins for Firefox, IE, and even a web based form if you're using it in a cafe.
Maybe they should have stopped at 955,000...
But those are the docs and specs for the Microsoft knee jerk reaction "Open XML" documents, not the existing .doc, .xls, etc. files that people have billions and billions of stashed on their hard drives around the world.
While I don't disagree with taxes, I do disagree with the way taxes are applied. Taxes are targeted towards groups of individuals when somebody realizes "oh, wow, there's a lot of money being spent over there, let's tax it!" Generally, then, some people end up getting taxed more than others. Then again, there are all kinds of ways for people with money to get out of paying taxes by using tax shelters, special programs, etc. that general middle to low class people can't afford to invest in.
The solution? Good question, there, but I generally thought the "flat tax" was a good idea. The federal sales tax seemed like a good idea, too, as long as it would be small (1 to 2 percent) and applied to everything in general.
Taxes are weird though. Why is it (depending on your locality, of course) that taxes for goods are generally 5 to 8 percent, but taxes on gasoline are more on the order of 12 to 20 percent? In the area I live in, the taxes on a gallon of gas are about 40 cents. That's like 20 percent!
No, I don't think it's a "build suspense thing".
And I'm pretty damn sure it's still Dec 1 somewhere. It's December 1 by my clock, and it's on UTC, even, and just by virture of that, I will vehemently contest that your statement of "Dec 1 is over" is incorrect.
Granted, if they were promoting a Dec 1 release date, I'd think it would have been released at the BEGINNING of Dec 1, not the end.
From their web site:
Two things come to mind:
Yep - I can think of at least one legitimate use for me. Working for a large nameless and faceless corporation, they do content filtering on the firewall and sometimes some suprising things get blocked. The FreeTDS site was blocked for some dumb reason, for example. Being a UNIX system administrator, I do a lot of research on security and hacking methods (I wear a white hat, for sure) and frequently get blocked by the firewall because I'm looking up stuff on sites it labels as "hacking related". I mean, duh, the crackers and script kiddies can get to all the information about how to compromise my systems, but I can't see the same information to figure out how to safeguard them?
I could set up my own authenticated server on my home box (Ubuntu) and proxy through it for unfettered access. Granted there'd be a speed hit because of the upload limit on the cable box, but it'd be better than having to send myself notes to download stuff at home and bring it back to work the next day on my pen drive.
I wouldn't be surprised if executives are required to wire themselves and keep the tape running any time they are talking to any employee, client, or anyone else relating to business matters. The company would have to keep the tapes for 2 years, or longer if certain topics were discussed or litigation is expected.
Shhh! Good lord, man.. Don't give them any ideas.
I've actually had that conversation with the bean counters, but it went like this:
Techie: We need $5,000 to buy another 100 DLT tapes to comply with this no-rewrite order.
Bean Counter: Again! We don't have any money in the budget to buy any more tapes
Techie: Ok, no problem. Send me an email and CC your boss and my boss and tell them that we can not comply to this federal ruling because we don't have any money in the budget.
Bean Counter: Erm.. Uh.. Oh! Here's some money for tapes you can have.
As long as the gun is pointing at them, they are very cooperative.
I second the parent. Working for a company that's under one of those rules currently (because of some litigation or another), we're under a "do not rewrite" order. The entire - and very large - corporation. Just in my little corner of the world, we're ordering about 50 DLT tapes a month to keep up. We're actually spending about 100K on new tape drives just so the storage per tape (and hence the amount of tapes we have to buy every month) goes down.
At least TFA says it's only for companies that are currently undergoing federal litigation.
Speaking as an Oracle dba of 9 years, if your DBA's have to tweak the database daily, you need to fire them and hire some new ones that know what they are doing. I've got Oracle databases that run for years with little or no tweaking (aside from the mandatory critical patch bundles from Oracle)
Even if they are dealing with crappy vendor supplied SQL in a canned application, that should only take a few months to line out after each new version of the canned app. After that, it should just run.
Agree. The RDBMS itself is a small part of the actuall delivered stack of code that delivers a wide range of functionality.
Plus.. Number of times MSSQL Server (a.k.a Sybase fork) has brought my larg organizations IT infrastructure to it's knees - 1. Number of times Oracle has done the same - 0. And we've been running Oracle a LOT longer (mid 80's, I think) than we have MSSQL Server.
I second that. There are tons of places at my current employer where the same problems exist. Old processes that nobody want's take the time to streamline. The main issue? If you ask them, it's already streamlined, they just don't see that it can be made better for lack of vision. "But it is automated! We take this data, load it into Excel, massage it with this Access database, upload it to Oracle, then download it into this other tool... etc, etc."
Biggest problem? People that think they are "programmers" and "database developers" because they can use VBA in Excel or crete a form an report in Access on top of some hideous schema that probably makes Mr. Codd spin in his grave at 7200 RPM.
And, as a followup to your question, the answer is "yes". Check out HP and Yahoo! in a "view source" window. Lots of "div" tags and not any "table" tags that I could see in a casual glance.
Why is a valid question modded as funny? Anybody got some mod points left, change this to informative (even though, technically, it's interrogative). And to add my 0.02 to the question, it's that people don't want to take the time to figure out a decent design within the constraints of currenly supported CSS. You can do just about any design in CSS you can with tables, but not all of them (maybe 98%). The end result is, of course, smaller, easier to modify and modular enough to take apart and put back together in a different design without having to fight the nightmare of trying to move a table cell in a table without whacking the whole design to hell.
EXS is cheap, when you consider you can run 10 servers on one piece of hardware. 10 servers: 50,000 bucks. One server + ESX: 10,000 bucks. That's an 80% savings.
It's funny. Rent a copy.
Wow.. Nice to see people whip out the racism card as the first response. My first thought after reading it was "Ah.. an oblique 'Airplane' reference". Are you saying Airplane was racist as well?
Actually that stuff between the keys in your keyboard is only HALF of your dna.
Friends house.. Internet Cafe.. Bottom line, you can't monitor your kids 24x7 - it's impossible. They have to be aware of the dangers enough to make intelligent decisions on their own. If they are smart enough to figure out how to get around all the blocks that get put in their way, they should be smart enough to understand the dangers and involve somebody they trust (a parent/grownup/teacher type person) at that point.
And on an interesting note, if you save that as a PNG file (Gimp - compression set to 9) you get a 13.3K image. The original example GIF from that page was 180K (although the page author admits that GIFs with > 256 colors don't use LZW compression). The same file, saved as a GIF quantized to 256 colors ends up as 24.3K. Same number of pixels, but in this case the PNG has more bits per pixel and STILL ends up with a smaller file. I'm sold...
Looks pretty solid, just be aware that it'll only take half height PCI cards which limits what you can do with it, IMO. As a MythTV box, it'll pretty much be just a front end, with your back end located somewhere else, since most of the higher end capture cards (a la Hauppage) are full height PCI cards.