It just so happens that the You Version Bible App was the first one I installed. It happens to be a very nice application. There happen to be a lot of people that want bible applications. Are we in some way not worthy to have our software?
You are entitled to whatever other kind you might be interested in. (I can only guess what that might be).
"Their professor, George Ledin, has showed them how to penetrate even the best antivirus software."
I think the professor's time would be better spent communicating with the AV companies, rather than helping breed the next generation of script kiddies. Teaching college students to break AV software seems counter-productive to [the industries attempts to make things better. I am not saying the security through obscurity is better, but I think it would be helpful to determine the color of the student's hat before giving away the keys to the kingdom.
I spent the first half of my life as an exempt employee. The entire time that felt unfair. Later I had my own companies and paid myself what the company could afford, and my wife was on budget committee. Sometimes you put up with less than optimum conditions if there are overriding factors. Things like opportunities to get crucial experience, or work with the right people. Often you put up with conditions to support your way of life (family). You cannot always take the chance to make waves depending on family concerns.
Today if I had a job at Apple, I would be satisfied. There is more to life than what job you have. Sometimes it is important to wokl on something that improves the quality of life for people.
If worker's rights are what turns you on, become a union organizer. If creating technology that makes people happy gives you a thrill, do it. If helping people with their problems make you feel good, do that.
Which part of you is unhappy? If it is the part that wants to earn a good living to support your loved ones, look for a new job. Otherwise, do your work, worship per the religion of your choice, and be glad for what is working in your life. Sometimes we don't know when we have it made.
The day finally comes. They turn on each stage one at a time. Things look like they are going well. Data flows at an incredible rate and is properly transmitted over the new high speed internet and safely stored in new data repositories all over the world. Slowly the beams start to drift off track. The scientists furiously calculate what is going on as the beams tear great gaping holes in space as they precess towards the data center. Finally a nerd realizes what is going on and shouts, "It's the magnetic field from the CRT in the data center, it is attracting the beams..". But by then the entire experiment is destroyed.
I do Mac development here and I am messing around with podcast production. This just happens to be the first feature I came across that was a really nice touch. Multimedia mastering is big these days, and reducing drudgery is a noble goal. I am sure I will discover other fine features as I go forward, but I was impressed with that one.
Mac OS X Server has a server based podcast utility that generates all your desired derivative versions of podcasts for various resolutions. You use a simple video capture client on your desktop or notebook and the video is uploaded to the server where a workflow is applied to it and a lot of stuff is done by one or more distributed machines. A very nice solution if you have more than pone podcast to do or want to support more than one resolution.
Not being entirely happy with the DNS in Leopard Server, I run several DNS servers on the side that have been patched. What I run on the Apple Server are the Apple specific server apps. There was no particular reason to keep the DNS there.
They absolutely refused to tell me which CPU they put in the server I bought. They bent over backwards so as not to tell me which model of the Xeon CPU was in the SC1420 servers I invested in. The Intel CPUINFO program gave numbers that didn't correspond with any known part and Intel said it was up to Dell to disclose which part they were using. Both Intel and Dell pointed at each other, and I never did get to know what part was in the machine.
So much for Dell openness
Back in the days, I did the first hard drive for the Apple ][. That is I did the software that went in the eprom on the interface board. The code was straightforward and I remember it being a pleasure to work on. Even though it was written in 6502 Assembly. This was unlike what you have had to do to write a hard disk driver for Dos or Windows where you had to install TSR device filters and bend over backwards to make it work, or pay a huge amounts to MS for the installable file system kit, if you could get it at all. MS wants $1000 for Visual Studio, but development comes for free with Mac OS X.
When I worked at autodesk, the code had to compile on a huge number of target systems, so coding standards were about not breaking the code on systems with crippled compilers. It led to sad code,, but allowed autocad to compile on just about anything. Portability is very important, and standards help with that.
Back in the IBM-PC days, I was the senior software engineer on the project that ported Easywriter to the IBM-PC from the Apple ][. Because the programmers on the project all smoked dope constantly, I kept backups of the work in progress every day. On the day the product was released, IBM asked John Draper where the source code was. He told them I had stolen it. The police arrived at my home and arrested me. The demanded all backup disks from me on penalty that they would issue search warrants for all my friends homes in Berkeley if I did not comply. When they led me into the lab in handcuffs, I walked over to John Draper's desk, moved one piece of paper, and there were the official release source code disks. They made me sign a piece of paper that said I hadn't been arrested, but administratively detained. I was really pissed off for years. It was absolutely my policy to keep off site backups because no one else in the company could be trusted to assure on a daily basis that we had the best code saved. This was before source code control systems. Of course I never refused to give the information to management when they asked. But they came after me for having it, when it was my job to have it. In my opinion, the clueless tell management that a crime has been committed, and management call the cops. I should have sued everyone involved in this travesty of justice. But quitting and leaving town was the best revenge, and not having to work with these people further was a benefit.
This is the drive I have been waiting for. 16MB-cache Sata III, 10RPM. $300. 300GB. The next time I need the combination of speed and space I will be looking at this one. It would be good to put four of these in the 2008 Mac Pro as the highest performance solution available.
A while back I owed money to credit card companies. The only phone I had was a cell phone. The credit card companies were calling me constantly. I had cingular at the time. One day I realized my monthly minutes were running out and I shut the phone off because I didn't want to go into overtime and pay 45 cents per minute. I got a big surprise at the end of the month. I received a bill for hundreds of dollars of overage because when the credit card companies called me, the got my voice mail and the time they spent leaving me messages was counted as air time. I had to pay up, cancel my service, and pat the $175 early termination fee. The other thing that is interesting is that when you realize you are in trouble during a particular month, you can decide to increase your plan to include more minutes, but the increase doesn't take effect until the next month which means you get reamed for the remainder of the month even if you turn off your phone. While cell phones are convenient for receiving an placing calls, they are also a huge financial liability depending on your situation and whether you are popular, as in owe a lot of money. I share this story in the hopes that it will help people who haven't been there yet.
As a TechNet Plus subscriber (until it expires anyway) I have access to all the operating system products as well as the servers. When you install Windows Server, you are quickly pushed into using Active Directory and SQL Server because they are required prerequisites. You get pushed into using exchange if you want certain outlook options to be configurable. Once you stick your foot in, soon it's the whole enchilada. Each aspect has it's own set of client access licenses. An example of their proprietary networking orientation is their Unix for Windows product that allows integration of the Windows domain with SUN NIS, but inly with the Windows Server as the Master NIS server and not as a slave. So if you want to run heterogeneously, the Windows software has to be the Master Server. Because Unix servers scale better than Windows, it might make more sense to have a huge expensive multiprocessor SUN SPARC server as the master server, especially if your environment contains many different vendors Unix offerings, including SUN, HP, MIPS, IBM...
Although Microsoft does support TCP/IP protocols in general, they make alterations to the protocols for their own sake that more than anything else are used to lock in the clients.
As for the Menu versus the Ribbon... Back when IBM and MS wanted what Apple had, they got together and created the CUA specification that stated that users were more comfortable and productive when they recognized the gui components and knew what to do. The menu with its standard "File" pull down containing a print and quit option were considered mandatory. The CUA standard did its job and made the users comfortable switching between vendors. I noticed that Microsoft didn't try to gain any community support for the switch away from CUA. IF they had I might feel differently. Your experience is different than mine, for the people I have spoken to about the loss of the menu all (without exception) dislike the new IE and Office GUI. What it is for Microsoft is a chance to sell more books and training courses, instead of leveraging off many years of experience that existing users have in the CUA environment. It is not about drama or emotion. It is about how the users expect applications to work. The world uses menus, Microsoft uses the ribbon. The only reason they even try this is because they are the 800 pound gorilla.
I cannot say for sure whether it is the kernel or the win 32 that makes Windows subject to all thee viruses and worms, but Unix has a long reputation for robustness. Microsoft has more money than anyone and I have no sympathy if they might have to pay money to rehost their OS. I certainly cannot see why it would take ten years.
Years ago I worked for Teradata. They had a proprietary database they wrote for the NSA that was written in assembler and was just over one megabyte in size. At that time it was the largest piece of software I had ever encountered. It is really hard for me to relate to MS needing two billion bytes of ram to perform the functions of an operating system.
When Unix with X Window system needed 16MB of ram, I thought that was a lot, but I understood. Why we need 250 times that much today is the result of poor engineering practices.
You said maybe we are doing 1000 times more these days. How many of these 1000 things did the user ask for. The ISO protocol failed to compete with TCP/IP mostly because the ISO stack took at least a megabyte of ram and that was thought to be too much. If they were competing today, that meg would be a drop in the bucket.
What users today want is reliable, efficient operation. They want straightforward user interfaces. They want file formats that allow for interoperation between system. Microsoft has had their way with OS design, GUI design, file formats, and what do we have. The country's systems still have trouble interoperating, people still have a hard time knowing what to do at the computer. The reason alternative operating systems and open source software exist today is because Microsoft's products are not s
This paragrph you quoted:
"But Microsoft (and our co-sponsors, Intel and Hewlett-Packard) went further and have agreed that our patents essential to implementing C# and CLI will be available on a "royalty-free and otherwise RAND" basis for this purpose."
Is a recent development. I have not been misleading people for years.
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I realize that you can build your own, but sometimes it is nice not to have to engineer and administer every little piece of your network. I put my Terastation on line in a few minutes. It has a gigabit ethernet with jumbo packets. It has smb afp and ftp access. It has worked well for two years now. It is small and quiet, and gives me a good feeling about my data being safe. I am paying less money using this appliance than I would running a PC chassis and drives. YMMV
As I have been pointing out for years now, ECMA publishes documents that contain unlicensed patented technology of member companies. So despite your unknowledgeable remark about not needing MS or the sanctity of MONO, The ECMA standards belong to Microsoft and they can kill MONO any time they want. If you spent even one hour reading the ECMA web site you would see that the ECMA is a troll trap. They don't even try to hide it. Lock-in is the name of the game with.NET. It is the face of the Trusted Computing Initiative where only Intel and Microsoft are trusted. The people that write the runtime are the trusted ones. I have serious and unhealthy hatred for what Microsoft has done to the software industry, and.NET is the tool by which they destroy third party development.
8086 had 16-bit path to memory, 8088 had 8-bit path to memory, bit the math in the processors was 16 bit. I assume that was why we called them 16-bit processors.
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You are entitled to whatever other kind you might be interested in. (I can only guess what that might be).
I pray you find some tolerance and grow up.
I think the professor's time would be better spent communicating with the AV companies, rather than helping breed the next generation of script kiddies. Teaching college students to break AV software seems counter-productive to [the industries attempts to make things better. I am not saying the security through obscurity is better, but I think it would be helpful to determine the color of the student's hat before giving away the keys to the kingdom.
Today if I had a job at Apple, I would be satisfied. There is more to life than what job you have. Sometimes it is important to wokl on something that improves the quality of life for people.
If worker's rights are what turns you on, become a union organizer. If creating technology that makes people happy gives you a thrill, do it. If helping people with their problems make you feel good, do that.
Which part of you is unhappy? If it is the part that wants to earn a good living to support your loved ones, look for a new job. Otherwise, do your work, worship per the religion of your choice, and be glad for what is working in your life. Sometimes we don't know when we have it made.
The day finally comes. They turn on each stage one at a time. Things look like they are going well. Data flows at an incredible rate and is properly transmitted over the new high speed internet and safely stored in new data repositories all over the world. Slowly the beams start to drift off track. The scientists furiously calculate what is going on as the beams tear great gaping holes in space as they precess towards the data center. Finally a nerd realizes what is going on and shouts, "It's the magnetic field from the CRT in the data center, it is attracting the beams..". But by then the entire experiment is destroyed.
I do Mac development here and I am messing around with podcast production. This just happens to be the first feature I came across that was a really nice touch. Multimedia mastering is big these days, and reducing drudgery is a noble goal. I am sure I will discover other fine features as I go forward, but I was impressed with that one.
Mac OS X Server has a server based podcast utility that generates all your desired derivative versions of podcasts for various resolutions. You use a simple video capture client on your desktop or notebook and the video is uploaded to the server where a workflow is applied to it and a lot of stuff is done by one or more distributed machines. A very nice solution if you have more than pone podcast to do or want to support more than one resolution.
Not being entirely happy with the DNS in Leopard Server, I run several DNS servers on the side that have been patched. What I run on the Apple Server are the Apple specific server apps. There was no particular reason to keep the DNS there.
gives you the ability to run 1000 users on your app. Is that enough of a beta test?
They absolutely refused to tell me which CPU they put in the server I bought. They bent over backwards so as not to tell me which model of the Xeon CPU was in the SC1420 servers I invested in. The Intel CPUINFO program gave numbers that didn't correspond with any known part and Intel said it was up to Dell to disclose which part they were using. Both Intel and Dell pointed at each other, and I never did get to know what part was in the machine. So much for Dell openness
Back in the days, I did the first hard drive for the Apple ][. That is I did the software that went in the eprom on the interface board. The code was straightforward and I remember it being a pleasure to work on. Even though it was written in 6502 Assembly. This was unlike what you have had to do to write a hard disk driver for Dos or Windows where you had to install TSR device filters and bend over backwards to make it work, or pay a huge amounts to MS for the installable file system kit, if you could get it at all. MS wants $1000 for Visual Studio, but development comes for free with Mac OS X.
When I worked at autodesk, the code had to compile on a huge number of target systems, so coding standards were about not breaking the code on systems with crippled compilers. It led to sad code,, but allowed autocad to compile on just about anything. Portability is very important, and standards help with that.
fast, cheap, old... Which two do you want?
Back in the IBM-PC days, I was the senior software engineer on the project that ported Easywriter to the IBM-PC from the Apple ][. Because the programmers on the project all smoked dope constantly, I kept backups of the work in progress every day. On the day the product was released, IBM asked John Draper where the source code was. He told them I had stolen it. The police arrived at my home and arrested me. The demanded all backup disks from me on penalty that they would issue search warrants for all my friends homes in Berkeley if I did not comply. When they led me into the lab in handcuffs, I walked over to John Draper's desk, moved one piece of paper, and there were the official release source code disks. They made me sign a piece of paper that said I hadn't been arrested, but administratively detained. I was really pissed off for years. It was absolutely my policy to keep off site backups because no one else in the company could be trusted to assure on a daily basis that we had the best code saved. This was before source code control systems. Of course I never refused to give the information to management when they asked. But they came after me for having it, when it was my job to have it. In my opinion, the clueless tell management that a crime has been committed, and management call the cops. I should have sued everyone involved in this travesty of justice. But quitting and leaving town was the best revenge, and not having to work with these people further was a benefit.
If you do the upgrade, you are forced to get a new number. Only full price buyers get to keep their old numbers.
This is the drive I have been waiting for. 16MB-cache Sata III, 10RPM. $300. 300GB. The next time I need the combination of speed and space I will be looking at this one. It would be good to put four of these in the 2008 Mac Pro as the highest performance solution available.
There are so many cool languages that would have done as well.
He was protecting the NTFS from an upstart. If RFS had taken over, Linux would have won and Windows would have been dead.
A while back I owed money to credit card companies. The only phone I had was a cell phone. The credit card companies were calling me constantly. I had cingular at the time. One day I realized my monthly minutes were running out and I shut the phone off because I didn't want to go into overtime and pay 45 cents per minute. I got a big surprise at the end of the month. I received a bill for hundreds of dollars of overage because when the credit card companies called me, the got my voice mail and the time they spent leaving me messages was counted as air time. I had to pay up, cancel my service, and pat the $175 early termination fee. The other thing that is interesting is that when you realize you are in trouble during a particular month, you can decide to increase your plan to include more minutes, but the increase doesn't take effect until the next month which means you get reamed for the remainder of the month even if you turn off your phone. While cell phones are convenient for receiving an placing calls, they are also a huge financial liability depending on your situation and whether you are popular, as in owe a lot of money. I share this story in the hopes that it will help people who haven't been there yet.
This story broke last year and has already been discussed here.
As for the Menu versus the Ribbon... Back when IBM and MS wanted what Apple had, they got together and created the CUA specification that stated that users were more comfortable and productive when they recognized the gui components and knew what to do. The menu with its standard "File" pull down containing a print and quit option were considered mandatory. The CUA standard did its job and made the users comfortable switching between vendors. I noticed that Microsoft didn't try to gain any community support for the switch away from CUA. IF they had I might feel differently. Your experience is different than mine, for the people I have spoken to about the loss of the menu all (without exception) dislike the new IE and Office GUI. What it is for Microsoft is a chance to sell more books and training courses, instead of leveraging off many years of experience that existing users have in the CUA environment. It is not about drama or emotion. It is about how the users expect applications to work. The world uses menus, Microsoft uses the ribbon. The only reason they even try this is because they are the 800 pound gorilla.
I cannot say for sure whether it is the kernel or the win 32 that makes Windows subject to all thee viruses and worms, but Unix has a long reputation for robustness. Microsoft has more money than anyone and I have no sympathy if they might have to pay money to rehost their OS. I certainly cannot see why it would take ten years.
Years ago I worked for Teradata. They had a proprietary database they wrote for the NSA that was written in assembler and was just over one megabyte in size. At that time it was the largest piece of software I had ever encountered. It is really hard for me to relate to MS needing two billion bytes of ram to perform the functions of an operating system.
When Unix with X Window system needed 16MB of ram, I thought that was a lot, but I understood. Why we need 250 times that much today is the result of poor engineering practices.
You said maybe we are doing 1000 times more these days. How many of these 1000 things did the user ask for. The ISO protocol failed to compete with TCP/IP mostly because the ISO stack took at least a megabyte of ram and that was thought to be too much. If they were competing today, that meg would be a drop in the bucket.
What users today want is reliable, efficient operation. They want straightforward user interfaces. They want file formats that allow for interoperation between system. Microsoft has had their way with OS design, GUI design, file formats, and what do we have. The country's systems still have trouble interoperating, people still have a hard time knowing what to do at the computer. The reason alternative operating systems and open source software exist today is because Microsoft's products are not s
While that statement may have appeared in a blog, it was not posted on the ECMA site where the condition of usage for the documents were described.
This paragrph you quoted: "But Microsoft (and our co-sponsors, Intel and Hewlett-Packard) went further and have agreed that our patents essential to implementing C# and CLI will be available on a "royalty-free and otherwise RAND" basis for this purpose." Is a recent development. I have not been misleading people for years.
I realize that you can build your own, but sometimes it is nice not to have to engineer and administer every little piece of your network. I put my Terastation on line in a few minutes. It has a gigabit ethernet with jumbo packets. It has smb afp and ftp access. It has worked well for two years now. It is small and quiet, and gives me a good feeling about my data being safe. I am paying less money using this appliance than I would running a PC chassis and drives. YMMV
As I have been pointing out for years now, ECMA publishes documents that contain unlicensed patented technology of member companies. So despite your unknowledgeable remark about not needing MS or the sanctity of MONO, The ECMA standards belong to Microsoft and they can kill MONO any time they want. If you spent even one hour reading the ECMA web site you would see that the ECMA is a troll trap. They don't even try to hide it. Lock-in is the name of the game with .NET. It is the face of the Trusted Computing Initiative where only Intel and Microsoft are trusted. The people that write the runtime are the trusted ones. I have serious and unhealthy hatred for what Microsoft has done to the software industry, and .NET is the tool by which they destroy third party development.
8086 had 16-bit path to memory, 8088 had 8-bit path to memory, bit the math in the processors was 16 bit. I assume that was why we called them 16-bit processors.