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Fundamental flaw # 1: Steve Bamby.
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Who? Do you mean Steve Ballmer instead?
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Yes, I thought that was his nick name.
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Browser cookies are a good way to provide a stateless protocol with some memory. Unfortunately, they're also good for hijacking application sessions and impersonating users. There are a number of attacks that utilize improper use of session cookies. Session hijacking is among the most common and potentially destructive cookie attacks. Pay close attention to what you do with cookies and help make the Internet a safer place.
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The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr. These are not capable of being compiled today with modern c compilers like gcc. I am only posting these here for the enjoyment and reminiscing of the spark that ignited a soon to be trillion dollar industry. Enjoy. Be sure to read Primeval C for background, linked in the Readme.
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I expect that's the same code I read on dmr's site a few years ago; very cool.
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Considering MySQL? Use something else. Already on MySQL? Migrate. For every successful project built on MySQL, you could uncover a history of time wasted mitigating MySQL's inadequacies, masked by a hard-won, but meaningless, sense of accomplishment over the effort spent making MySQL behave. Thesis: databases fill roles ranging from pure storage to complex and interesting data processing; MySQL is differently bad at both tasks. Real apps all fall somewhere between these poles, and suffer variably from both sets of MySQL flaws. This should be popular - he rails against PHP, too.
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The move makes sense when looking at the market's state. 7200RPM mobile hard drives have always been a premium product and are mostly found in high-end laptops or built-to-order configurations. Due to the decline in SSD prices over the last few years, the market for faster hard drives has quickly faded away because users seeking for performance have opted for SSDs instead of 7200RPM hard drives. While 7200RPM 2.5" hard drives are still significantly cheaper per GB than SSDs, even a small (32-128GB) SSD will provide better overall performance when used as an OS and applications drive... How much SSD space would you need to give up spinning drives entirely?
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Yes, because everyone wants to sacrifice long lasting drives for dubious life spans of SSD's.
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote: sacrifice long lasting drives for dubious life spans of SSD's
I would not exactly call HDD's immortal either. I've had several fail.
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And what about their 15K 2.5" drives? Are they discontinuing them also, or the argument is flawed is it not?
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Reading one of the comments, it says that the author of that article did not read the original article very well. It seems they will stop selling purely hard drives but instead only sell their SSD/HDD hybrids. (As well as just SSD)
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Windows 8 hasn't exactly lit the world on fire so far since its release in late October. It's so different from the traditional Windows. Lots of PC fans are struggling with, or fearful of, the transition. In part, that's because Windows 8 is two OSes in one.... But even if you've avoided this new split personality, most new PCs come with Windows 8. And if Microsoft is correct about the world moving to touchscreen PCs, sooner or later you'll find a Windows 8 machine under your fingertips. In that case, you'll want to learn your way around as quickly as possible.... To motivate you, here are 20 tips and tricks for Windows 8 -- some useful, some quirky and some just great features nobody talks about. Should a new version of Windows - or any tablet-ready OS - require this much hand-holding?
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TrenchBroom is a cross-platform level editor for the Quake engine. It has a different slightly philosophy than other editors. I believe that the traditional approach, where you work primarily in 2D views, forces you to think in 2D rather than in 3D. That is why this editor does not have 2D views at all - you do all work in one single 3D view. John Carmack thinks this is cool. You should check it out.
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On Feb 12th 2013, FireEye announced the discovery of an Adobe Reader 0-day exploit which is used to drop a previously unknown, advanced piece of malware. We called this new malware “ItaDuke” because it reminded us of Duqu and because of the ancient Italian comments in the shellcode copied from Dante Aligheri’s “Divine Comedy”.... Together with our partner CrySyS Lab, we’ve performed a detailed analysis of these unusual incidents which suggest a new, previously unknown threat actor. For the CrySyS Lab analysis, please read [here]. For our analysis, please read below. Adobe exploits should not surprise, but this one's still active, so read and beware.
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Quote: For the detailed analysis and information on how to protect against the attack, please read:
[The MiniDuke Mystery: PDF 0-day Government Spy Assembler 0x29A Micro Backdoor.PDF]
(**link removed**)
SEEMS LEGIT!
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haha, just wanted to point out that an article about a PDF based exploit was giving a link to a more "detailed" article in PDF format :P
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Another battery breakthrough[^]
Every year there are 2 of 3 of them. I have yet too see one reach my batteries...
But this one seem likely... let's see!
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It'd be nice, as that could solve one of the last major problems holding back electric cars (though I'd still get a Tesla if I had the money).
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Shocking!
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Name.com has created a system where any wildcarded third-level domain name that fails a real DNS query is treated like a real domain… a real domain that I don't control, but instead they do, and are trying to monetize.
I hate it when things don't fail... when they are supposed to. TLDR: Name.com hijacks your subdomains so they can sell stuff, and they claim they have the right to do that because it's listed in their TOS, but not everybody agrees.
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The HTML5 Web Storage standard was developed to allow sites to store larger amounts of data (like 5-10 MB) than was previously allowed by cookies (like 4KB). localStorage is awesome because it’s supported in all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+, IE 8+, etc.).
The standard anticipated that sites might abuse this feature and advised that browsers limit the total amount of storage space that each origin could use.
So in HTML 5 there is a possibility to store a larger amount of data on client-side. Nice - But do we need it?
Unfortunately a web site can fill up your HDD with this technique by creating various sub-domains. Not nice - We definately do not need such a "feature".
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The most easily repairable tablet iFixit has reviewed is the Dell XPS 10 running Windows RT, a 10.1-incher that PCMag's Joel Santo Domingo rated as having perhaps the longest-lasting battery of any tablet currently out there. The iFixit team gave the XPS 10 a score of "9" on its repairability scale, one better than four "8's" the site has reviewed—the Amazon Kindle Fire (7-inch), Dell Streak, Motorola Xoom, and Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0.
That's first for a very long time...
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We keep looking for the common runtime that can run everywhere. We yearn (remember Java) for the platform that allows us the promise of “write once, run everywhere”. This, in the global sense, is a pipe dream. My comments here are targeted for custom software that businesses rely on. These are commonly referred to as business applications, or line of business applications. The days of writing a business application for the web and expecting it to serve all users is over. Only in a world where 99% of your users are using pretty much the same type of computer is this possible. In the New World Order, the application runs on the web server and is merely a set of APIs.
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