Are they unavoidable, or just a symptom of lazy coding, or both?
Both, in different amounts depending on which scripting language you use.
It's impossible to write perfect software - not even NASA can do that. On the other hand the languages aren't much help. PHP for instance allows you do to stupid things with user input variables. Depending on how your scripts work, you can see no errors for months and then all of a sudden half your database or site gets deleted. Great fun, that.
Actually you might have a point there. Someone needs to do this research again and count the percentage of open/closed source drivers that are vulnerable.
IE users won't find reasons to upgrade if the websites aren't giving them those reasons. If Google Maps started using SVG for the street maps or something... well you get the idea.
Until I read the summary I thought that meant they were going to stop their practice of deliberately changing the YIM protocol every other week to break 3rd-party clients.
The 32X itself wasn't a disaster, it was Sega's trying to push a billion pieces of hardware at the same time that was.
In fact had they not released the Saturn and held on to the 32X/CD combination (which was technically almost as good as the Saturn, plus it was backwards-compatible) for longer they'd probably still be in business now.
You forgot to mention that software RAID is portable across different hardware, and in most cases the way it lays out the data on the disks is well-documented. If a hardware RAID controller dies you have to find an identical one or you're screwed.
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I'd rather stick with that quaint and old-fashioned concept of paying for something once and having it.
It's not wrong at all. You can tell IE to do 3+3 in CSS and it _will_ give you 3 as the answer.
Dunno about you, but I've had a horizontal scrollbar on the page itself for about a week.
Both, in different amounts depending on which scripting language you use.
It's impossible to write perfect software - not even NASA can do that.
On the other hand the languages aren't much help. PHP for instance allows you do to stupid things with user input variables. Depending on how your scripts work, you can see no errors for months and then all of a sudden half your database or site gets deleted. Great fun, that.
That's the point: to find out whether FOSS is as secure as everyone makes it out to be.
Firefox can be an IE shell too, you know.
When it's half a dozen faults with a single product, it's hard to ignore.
Actually you might have a point there. Someone needs to do this research again and count the percentage of open/closed source drivers that are vulnerable.
Shouldn't that read "Incoming Obituaries"?
For the likes of Intel, this is the hardware equivalent of gdb.
They used to make coprocessors for floating-point math too.
Since when was a desktop environment a distro?
IE users won't find reasons to upgrade if the websites aren't giving them those reasons. If Google Maps started using SVG for the street maps or something... well you get the idea.
I've also wanted to do that, but with the selectors instead. I could make my user stylesheets a few kb smaller that way.
So here's my question: Any plans to add OOP-like syntax to CSS?
Until I read the summary I thought that meant they were going to stop their practice of deliberately changing the YIM protocol every other week to break 3rd-party clients.
Look at it another way: wireless motherboards.
The summary is the whole article, so I didn't bother reading it. :P
If Asterisk is out of the question despite that sentence, perhaps the OP should've used correct English.
The 32X itself wasn't a disaster, it was Sega's trying to push a billion pieces of hardware at the same time that was.
In fact had they not released the Saturn and held on to the 32X/CD combination (which was technically almost as good as the Saturn, plus it was backwards-compatible) for longer they'd probably still be in business now.
Is it just one light, or can individual keys be lit up? You could do a lot more with it that way.
30KB/s or 30kbps?
Either way, that makes mine seem good in comparison (used to be £60/mo for 512kbps).
...why not make it into a GCC frontend so Python can be compiled directly?
You forgot to mention that software RAID is portable across different hardware, and in most cases the way it lays out the data on the disks is well-documented. If a hardware RAID controller dies you have to find an identical one or you're screwed.
Bug-free programs are a nice idea unless you're trying to make money from them.
How will they submit crash reports if it's the NIC driver that's hosed?
Also how long before some hardware company resorts to spyware tactics so people can't click the "submit crash report" button?