Posts by Doctor Syntax 40471 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
And good luck to anyone wanting to do really complex layout such as splitting a map across facing pages using rules based layout. They're either going to have to be very, very good at applying the rules in their head or else use a lot of proofing runs to get good results. For that sort of writing using WYSIWYG is the equivalent of moving from punched cards and batch compiling to programming in an IDE.
if I was writing a modern replacement for "War and Peace", surely I'm interested in the words and not the fonts?
If you were writing it for self publishing you might well be more interested in fonts etc. Even more so if you were writing non fiction with a need to provide headings, sub headings, insert images and tables, keep track of references to these in the text etc. Alternatively you could use a plain text editor and then something like Scribus or InDesign to separate text from layout.
A word processor is more than a simple text editor. Both have their uses.
We had an S-100 box using cards from SD Systems. The OS was S-DOS. I'm not sure whether it was a CP/M clone, a ripped-off version or a licenced version re-branded but whatever ti was it did everything CP/M did, ran everything CP/M ran and was functionally indistinguishable. We also had a Microsoft FORTRAN compiler for it.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
"Put simply, because John's dev machine was a MIPS RISC box, and the firmware on that machine was white on blue.
"And in fact, his favorite editor at the time was SlickEdit, and the default text colors for SlickEdit were also white on blue.
And it's a nice bright colour to make the user feel happier.
"Company" is a collective word for people. Who are the people who comprise the company?
The directors shouldn't deceive the shareholders. The manglement shouldn't deceive the shareholders. It makes no sense to say the shareholders shouldn't deceive themselves at least not collectively and in the legal sense.
Ditto but in this case it wasn't Microsoft's update, it was Crowdstrike's, delivered by Crowdstrike's channel, not Microsoft's. It was Crowdstrike's responsibility to test before release and theirs alone and doubly so because it was applied automatically so it would be difficult for customers to test for themselves.
I don't think checking the hash would necessarily work. Create a crap file, calculate its hash and all the hash will subsequently confirm is that it's still the same crap file. It needs actual validation of the contents of the file, for instance, look to see if the memory it's about to access is legal and reject it if log an error message instead of going ahead.
The original investors in your sense would have done soe in hope of a return, either by dividends or by being able to sell their share of the company to others. The existence of those willing to by shares in the after-market are ultimately responsible for the willingness of the original investors to invest at all. And they themselves are now investors because they now own a slice of the original investment and because they were prepared to invest in it. It's unfortunate that they haven't grasped the fact that, together with the other shareholders they are members of the company they're suing. They're suing themselves.
I suppose it's just possible that this is a vehicle to get some of their investment back before it's swallowed up by customers' suits.
And for that you got a downvote?
It's beyond belief that there are commentards who can't grasp that simple fact of company law. The word company refers to the company of people who have come together to own it by buying shares in it. Unfortunately some shareholders also seem to overlook this simple fact. Sue the manglement - that's reasonable - but otherwise congratulations to the lawyers who got the shareholders to pay them (the lawyers) to sue themselves (the shareholders) to maybe get some of their (the shareholders) own money less the cost of two sets of their own lawyers. Two sets? Of course, as plaintiffs they're paying to sue and as members of the company they're paying to defend themselves against themselves.
If you follow the actual threading you will realise that I was using the "Reply" button to answer the question of why such a system would be put on the internet and the word "available" was used in that context.. Are you not familiar with manglements putting budget before everything else?
And before you start going on about the budgetary effects of being hit by ransomware, let me remind you that there may not be budget to do things right but there's always budget to fix things when they go wrong.
A monoculture - of any sort - is extremely vulnerable. At present we have something approaching that. Leaving aside any questions as to whether any other given OS might or might not be more secure that Windows the fact that it is so ubiquitous makes it a profitable target for those seeking vulnerabilities. Even if all the clients are on Windows it would be far safer for the underlying database to be run on a dedicated server running on any other OS, be it commercial Unix. Linux or a BSD and offering not other connections other than the SQL service itself. No, not even an SSH for remote admin - trading convenience for security is where the problems start.
From TFA it appears that the deployment and folding of the hindwings is linked to that of the elytra so it's a bit of a stretch to say that no power is required. It's just that it's applied to the elytra with some form of mechanical linkage to the hindwings.
The elytra are curved in profile. I wonder if they contribute lift when the hindwings are driving the beetle forwards.
So essentially somebody decided to fix what wasn't broken (or was there a scaling problem?) and do so in the most complex way they could think of. And then fail to review something which was extremely critical.
Let me guess. The developer of the original code was someone with a thorough grounding in the intricacies of certificate generation but was no longer with the company because they wanted younger, digital native, developers to work on this exciting new project.
"LockBit appeared to have 194 affiliates on its books, according to Operation Cronos, which found every single one"
What does "found" amount to here? An alias, a name and address or something in between that could be worked up into a name and address? If it's possible to identifiy them we should expect to see arrests unless they're all in Russia.
Treat any unsolicited email with links in it as probably phishing.
To make this work businesses need to start taking the high moral ground by not sending out emails that look like phishing emails - i.t. they are unsolicited and have links in them. They then need to publicise that emails claiming to be from themselves with links in them are phishing. They will probably need to enforce it by immediately terminating any employee who sends emails which look like phishing emails. Given that the "lets spam our customers because they're agog to learn about our latest brain-fart" mentality has spread so far into upper manglements that it will be very difficult to eliminate this.
This might have been a follow-up to a suggestion I made. What I had in mind was feeding a steam of randomly selected words from the contents of /usr/share/dict or its equivalent with the added refinement of occasionality selecting a pair or triplet of words from the stream and subsequently throwing them in at intervals so the stream would become a stream of meaningless word associations padded out with random words.
"patching is a painful process that requires rounds of testing and monitoring to ensure it's safe to push"
With recent events in mind perhaps the bill neds to include sanctions for issuing patches which are not adequately tested and for not issuing them at all. The first part of that would be to encourage and enable faster patching by organisations and the second would be to prevent evasion of the first.
"it does not honour Windows keystrokes. That, like it or not, is the standard."
Windows key? Do we have to assume a Windows keyboard layout? I have a couple of wireless keyboards that are only partially Windows-like in layout. What if it's installed on a Mac? Does Mac follow the same set of combinations?
I doubt there's a set of key combinations which will suit everyone. What would mightily piss off KDE users would be deciding it's time to change key combinations to match Windows.
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