Posts by CD001

Aaaah

If it was Operation Vacu-Suck then the key to the safe would be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - so they'd not need the drill/hoover combo ;)

Ummm...

That WAS MSs box model...

Take a DIV of width 100px - give it padding 10px and under the standard model the DIV is now 120px wide; under the MS model, the DIV is still 100px wide but the usable area of that DIV is only 80px - MS padded in, the standard pads out.

The reason is obvious when you give your 100px DIV a padding of 50px.

I seem to remember margins worked the same in IE's model and the standard.

Aaah

So he's not Anonymous after all!

Finland

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Britain declared war on Finland, Hungary and Romania on 5 December 1941, following the signing of the Tri-partite Pact and Finland's alliance with Germany.

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Making that the only time in history (IIRC) that one Democracy has declared war on another.

*sighs*

We're talking web servers here Windows/ISS is NOT the dominant environment for web servers. The regular claims that everyone targets Windows because it has the majority install base does not apply when talking about the web. It even says in the article that it's a software setup used on 25% of web servers... though I suspect it's very slightly less than that.

If the ubiquity argument was to hold water we'd hear endless reports of serious, exploitable vulnerabilities in Unix-a-like systems running Apache - the LAMP stack in particular. They're not unheard of, true, especially when you factor in dependant libraries (like OpenSSL) or application vulnerabilities as well... but they're generally either less severe or very difficult to exploit.

> Apache 2.0 has 29 open vulnerbilities, IIS 7 only has 3, what does this mean?

It means you're good at pulling meaningless numbers out of thin air? Severity and ease of exploit on those vulns please.

"A car has 29 vulnerabilities, all of them involve breaking into it using a large sledgehammer - while another car has only 3 vulnerabilities, one of which is that there's a 50% chance of the engine exploding in a massive fireball when the ignition is started" - which car would you rather have?

I'm not saying that IS the case with Apache vs IIS - just that giving a count of vulnerabilities is meaningless sensationalism.

K

I stand corrected - the Kevin Smith films tend to come out with the beer and pizza, fuzzed memory ;)

True...

Until such time as any of them start processing transactions... oh, hang on - Google Checkout perhaps? Facebook adverts maybe.

Even a discussion forum about dancing monkeys would be helped by a relational model - it makes (safely) deleting threads that much easier. How many forums (fora?) have you known "fall over" and loose big chunks of data because they're just sat on top of something like MyISAM - I can think of at least three that I use in recent years.

Nowadays, if you're using MySQL, there's not _much_ of a performance hit to using the InnoDB engine which allows for relationships. However - as with most things in life - there's the "horses for courses" proviso.

If you're using your database basically as unstructured document storage, there's no great advantage to InnoDB BUT there is an advantage to using MyISAM - FullText searches. Of course, you could hold an indexing system in InnoDB whilst keeping the documents in MyISAM tables inside MySQL. - then the only trick is keeping them in synch.

eh?

As is stands currently - not only do you have to go through quite a lot of effort to enable it (presumably because it's in "beta" heh) but once you do there's a little dropdown link next to the search bar that says "instant search on" - just click it to get the dropdown to toggle it to "off" ... of course, they may have some IP -> Location mapping that changes how it works depending on where you are.

I hope this is a troll

I thought "inciting religious hatred" was a crime - don't know about in the USA though. Muslims consider the Koran itself to be sacred, the literal words of God - it must be handled reverently. Burning it like this is tantamount to wandering into your local church and taking a dump on the altar/pulpit/whatever during Sunday Mass.

Since I grew up in a country where the car-bombs were planted by "Christians" - death by bomb isn't something you generally worry about - it'll happen or it won't. What I object to is dickheads living in the Dark Ages - Christian or Muslim. Worse from any of the three Abrahamic religions as they all worship the same God - essentially they're fighting each other over semantics (Christian/Muslim or even inside Christianity itself with Catholic/Protestant).

feckin eejits

Exactly

I had to enable it to find out what the fuss was about - funny how this has been reported as a "fancy HTML5-based BuckyBall animation" and yet utterly breaks when you disable JavaScript. Rather tends to imply that this IS JavaScript and NOT (purely) HTML 5 doesn't it?

That's what's pissing me off most about HTML 5 - all the w00t! Look at teh shinies in HTML 5 RAH RAH RAH... actually, I think you'll find it's (bits of) CSS 3, JavaScript and the HTML 5 DOM - all HTML 5 does at the moment is allows you to natively embed videos and improves the semantics of certain markup elements - <canvas> is just a wrapper for scripted graphics; not really any better than the deprecated/defunct <applet> tag IMO.

It's just a markup language for crying out loud!

It's all in the eyes

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python is way more readable and robust to extend than javascript

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Funny, to me, Python looks like a bastard lovechild of C and BASIC - I'm much happier in JavaScript (or Perl, PHP, Java or even C/C++) than Python.

iPlayer

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Until we get a set top box with BBC approved iPlayer functionality it's going to be a hard sell in the UK.

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We've got one - it's called the Playstation 3.

Actually, we've got two - if you're on Virgin Media you can get iPlayer through their box.

I've got both *shrugs*

Almost

Almost exactly what I was going to write - word for word ;)

Bulgarian Funbags?

Yes - I object - the proper nomenclature is Bulgarian Airbags! :P

except

... this is the real world, failing to protect your trademark can result in a loss of that trademark and then we could see a whole range of Jedi merchandise that has absolutely nothing to do with LucasArts whatsoever and is merely leeching of their brand.

Still, they may be easily startled but soon they'll be back - and in greater numbers.

agreed

¡iCaramba!

Best strapline I can remember for a really, really long time :)

What...

What has the ASA got to do with "government" exactly? Well, beyond the traditional sense of the word, as in to govern.

It's an industry body that works by policing the industry rather than having oversight imposed by central government ... for all true, blue-bloodied capitalists this is a good thing? no?

I'm sure...

I'm sure the PS3 supports FLAC - but you have to turn it on in the settings (same as WMA). I could be wrong though, I'll take a nose after work maybe.

Not quite

We're not really talking "a few pounds" here - the guy put on 31 kgs apparently - that's *back of a fag packet calculation* more than 4 and a half stone! If it was me that would be more than a third of my total body weight and I'd imagine I'd look rather different after that.

except

The chess analogy doesn't work however - and neither does this one - because there are far more than just 2 players.

why...

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I have *two* websites that don't work in Opera (and both are because the web dev was too bloody lazy to include it in the list of identified browsers

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Why the hell were the web monkeys using browser recognition (rather than "feature" recognition) anyway?

The point of Firefox is as a developer tool; it's standards compliant and has some of the best developer extensions available (Web Developer toolbar and ColorZilla, at least, are essential IMO). If you want a web browser for ooooh, I don't know, browsing the web perhaps - yes, you might be better off with Opera (mostly).

Opera is normally one of the first browsers to implement the latest standards as well - for instance, CSS3 border-radius moved to Candidate Recommendation at the end of last year so, in theory, border-radius: 12px; should work - but currently we have:

border-radius - the standard as used by Opera (and, I believe, the latest versions of Safari)

-moz-border-radius

-webkit-border-radius

... and surprise, surprise - there's NO implementation for current versions of Internet Explorer (it's implemented in version 9 apparently).

If you're...

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i need to install a mac's anti virus!

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If you're a Mac user - you probably don't know how. Seemingly grammar is beyond your grasp so software installation must work by magic pixie power.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Now can we all please stop the silly "My OS is better than your OS" willy-waving please?

hidemyass

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Ye-es

The Blaas of Glory version for preference...

Or how about White Zombie's "Welcome to the planet motherf..."

The fact that...

The mere fact that you can still get T-Shirts with something that looks remarkably like that "Intel Inside" logo but say, oh such witty things as "Satan Inside", is testament to the success of the campaign I'd have thought.

Besides - I tend to buy chips on performance (judged by published benchmark results before purchase) - and I'm now on my first Intel processor for a long time (previous 2 home PCs were AMD), Intel have taken the lead at the moment.

Must admit though - my current i7 overclocks beautifully.

Awww...

You were doing so well until that "using more than their fair share bit" ... had you said "more than they'd be prepared to pay for" I'd have been with you.

Unfortunately as some chap above me said - there's a lot more going on over your line than you have control over - you'd end up paying for all the spam emails you receive as well.

apart from one teeeeny technical fact

... that Islam didn't exist in AD80.

To be honest, if it keeps Dave Mustaine out of the country I'm all for banning mullets!

So...

So what you do is create a quasi-unique machine identifier based on the IP address and some arbitrary data gleaned from the browser (such as the UserAgent or HTTP data) - mush that into a salted hash and you will, in most instances, be able to tell one machine from another even if they're on the same network.

This fails only when you're dealing with particularly diligent SysAdmins who have identical images across every machine in their network and keep them all patched up with a group policy - something I've never encountered personally.

what?

If a 10 minute delay, once or twice a week, constitutes the "most delayed line in the country" - that IS perfection - or at least so damned close to it to make little difference.

Try catching the train in Blighty - "We're sorry, it's the wrong kind of rain - but it's OK, we've laid on a replacement bus service for you". Hell, we were eligible for compensation in the West Midlands a few years ago because they buggered up the train service so badly, for MONTHS, that you'd be lucky to get a train that was ONLY ten minutes late... it's not quite that bad now but still.

heh

funny how many upvotes you've got for saying this "this will probably be very unpopular" - mind I agree with you. If they're using average speed cams in urban areas instead of those bloody speed bumps then I'm all for it.

If they WERE to reduce the amount on dual-carriageways and motorways as well that would be a definite plus in my book. So have another upvote on me ;)

I'm sorry...

You appear to be under the misapprehension that web developers are paid a lot - in the IT development heap, web developers are normally considered one, maybe two rungs above pond-slime. Unfortunately, in many cases, this seems justifiable.

Anyway - back on track - from my experience, Internet Explorer only loads the UI quicker; opening web pages or new tabs actually takes considerably longer than in Firefox. It's a smoke and mirrors exercise.

On my work desktop (WinXP) Firefox is one of the faster browsers to load up to useful state - quicker than IE, Opera and Safari (even with plug-ins) in fact it's only beaten by Chrome and Lynx (hardly surprising on that one). On my main home PC (Win7) it's hardly worth worrying about since none of the web browsers take much longer than 1s to load ("from cold").

Having said that though, FF on my partner's WinXP laptop is appallingly slow to load up - in fact, I've only ever encountered issues with Firefox on laptops and Macs weirdly enough.