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Shipping culture is hurting us. Or at the very least, it is stopping us short of a better tomorrow. It worked for the captain of the Titanic
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Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered apparently state-created spyware buried in the firmware of hard drives from big names like Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital. The real reason they switched to 1000 bytes for a KB?
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Actually, aren't they all made in China these days?
And, of course, perhaps Samsung^ could have had a hand in this, too?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Oh that does it.
I'm gonna boot off a floppy..... wait where's the A: drive on this thing!?
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The real reason we don't have floppy drives?
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Nah.
They we're kind of a pita.
That said I have a mess of 'em. And some bootable diskettes too.
Now I need a real small c++ compiler.
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I don't think you could write a correct C++ parser in 1.44MB, let alone a compiler!
(Edit: correction)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The first C++ implementation was a preprocessor (that output C for compilation) called CFront. I couldn't quickly find conventional source code for it; but was able to find a scanned copy of release E in pdf format[^]. It's only 422 pages long (less once you subtract a few non-code pages); that should easily fit on a floppy. Worst case would be ~2MB (60 lines * 80 chars * 422 pages); but the average line isn't 80 characters long, there's lots of whitespace since page breaks were inserted between files (and there were a lot of small files). I wouldn't be surprised if it all fit on a 360k floppy actually.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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But CFront parsed a language that bears little resemblance to modern C++. The addition of a Turing-complete template language since then may, er, complicate the parser's job a tad.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Think you’re a whiz when it comes to Java? Love using Eclipse? The Eclipse Foundation have recently announced a skills competition that is sure to produce some epic bug fixes. Fix Eclipse for fame, fortune, and the gratitude of many
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A new report from Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs has revealed that 16 million mobile devices infected with malicious software. And even more are infected because of people using them in the rest room
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Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would support the next version of the Fast Identification Online (FIDO) spec, allowing devices to work with a wealth of third-party biometric readers and providing an easy framework for any hardware makers that want to build extra security into a laptop or phone. I thought they did already?
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There's a new trend called "devops" that is sweeping the enterprise IT world and its become a life-or-death career situation for many IT departments. "Are you not entertained?"
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Quote: And here's the dirty little secret about devops: Although IT departments will be buying new software tools to help them work in this fast new way, there is no multi-million or multi-billion dollar "devops market."
That's what they said about agile at one point; how many billions of dollars do useless agile conslutants suck out of IT budgets now? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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From Google to The White House, everyone is on GitHub. If you don't know what GitHub is, keep reading, because I'm also going to talk about why it's one of my favorite websites and share some of its most popular features. "But all the cool kids are doing it"
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Question raises, "Is CodeProject on GitHub, or is GitHub on CodeProject"?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I bet that kid hasn't even heard of SourceForge.net 
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Can I run it off a flash drive?
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Quite a lot of features there I didn't know about!
Kevin
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Kent Sharkey wrote: From Google to The White House, everyone is on GitHub.
emmmm... no, not everyone
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A while back—the year 2000 to be exact—Joel Spolsky wrote a blog post entitled: “The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code.” The 12 Step Program
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If you don't instrument and monitor your code you will have no objective way to determine if you are good or bad yourself and have to rely on the feedback of less knowledgeable people - what I call the Santa Claus loop.
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Ha! The linked Joel post links to this one http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html[^] which says
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They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.
"
about Netscape. Isn't that what Microsoft is doing to IE now? 
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What an amazing coincidence.
Hopefully with a happier ending.
TTFN - Kent
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