Posts by Infarction

45 years, eh? Wow... I'm looking forward to whatever one they do first (is it 5 or 10 years?) since I've only been out for like 3 years...

Don't click the links? I'd also recommend upgrading to IE 7, apprently it's a lot better security wise. Aside from that and keeping your anti-virus up to date, you just have to avoid getting the virus by changing your usage habits...

The best desktop is a custom :)

Unless you want tech support...

However, I'd say HP makes the best laptops.

I've heard more to the contrary, but I've not had one myself to make a good comment on it.

Odds are you'll get both. Security is becoming critical in all computer-related fields, so you'll get some either way. If you decide to specialize in security, you'll need a very strong background in the technologies of your field (in your case networking).

Typically threads are left to be so that other people can read them and hopefully get ideas for solving their problems from an existing thread. Why they don't get locked after some time of being dead is a decision the administrators have made, and it's arguably the better choice.

I love most racquet sports. Tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball... don't know why, but they have a great appeal to me.

And punctuation... :icon_rolleyes:

Which computer you're using is not an excuse for poor grammar and spelling. You're just being lazy and/or slovenly. Puncutation really doesn't hurt anyone...

dougy, if either one is NULL, you'll dereference it at least once in the loop body. It's little mistakes like this that make those library functions so important... :icon_wink:

I'll make the assumption that the email you sent had reasonably proper punctuation and spelling, unlike your posts (which walk a fine line of understandability)... :icon_wink:

Not using strcmp because it's an "external function" is stupid (if this is an assignment, it's a horrible requirement). Especially when the external function doesn't relate to the problem (sorting).

I'd also point out that using char*, string.h, etc... are all from C.

I'd venture that it's bad to use root for anything other than creating other users or new databases, all of which can be done just as easily through ssh or a local management application anyways...

Wow Duki, congrats on digging up a 3 year old thread. Please look at the date next time :icon_wink:

Like jbennet said, you only need to change it if you are accessing the database from another computer. That said, you change it by adding a user (link) for another location. Here's an example: GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'iamthwee'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpasswordhere' WITH GRANT OPTION This will create a new user, iamthwee, who can access the database from any host (the host comes after the @, and % is a wildcard), and has a password of 'yourpasswordhere.' The user will have full permissions to the entire database. You can limit the permissions or the scope at which they apply. The WITH GRANT OPTION allows the user to use the GRANT statement to add other users with equal or lesser permissions.

Willpower? Hmm.. I don't know about that.. Sometimes you don't want to be tickled, and are so anyway.

Or maybe you enjoy the tickling and deep down want to be tickled... :P

Lol Aia, if it weren't for the tense inconsistency, that would be a great insult... :P

More on topic: curse words IMHO are words with severe connotations which can be used for effective emphasis; however, they're typically used poorly, and their overuse demonstrates a severe lack of language control on the speaker's part.

As an anecdote, I just started realizing how much one of my friends swears (I'm pretty sure this is a new thing for her), and she does is rather poorly, to the point of being annoying as a matter of style alone. It also makes what she says much less worth listening to; who wants to listen to an abuse of vulgar terms?

VS 2005 .NET is the current version of Microsoft's IDE. VS 2005 Team Edition probably has a few additional tools for working in groups. The SP1 is just an update that's been released (both of them have an SP1, since they're basically the same). As to which is better, it depends on if you're working with a large group; I doubt you are, so you don't need Team Edition.

Thread bumping is usually considered highly inappropriate, especially when your thread is still on the first page. I'd expected better of you.

In reponse to your question, I'd point you here

I think legalisg all drugs and having a state run monopoly on them would cut organised crime by a huge %

Your suggestion could be rephrased as: "if we legalize drugs, their use won't be a crime anymore, so crime will go down."

I'm typically against legalization of drugs; on the other hand, so long as I remain unaffected in every way, I could care less what people do to themselves. It's just that the unaffected clause never seems to work. But as for the "less harmful" argument, I'd compare it to saying that everyone should be allowed to carry knives everywhere because they're less deadly than guns (admittedly, it's a somewhat extreme comparison).

Depending on how efficient you are, $20-50 sounds about right. If you venture toward the low end you won't make as much but you'll likely have happier customers (and maybe even return business)

I did that once and [luckily] all that happened was that 2 of my hard drives got killed. So you might end up needing to do something there as well...

However, we can not dismiss microsoft for what it has gave to computers. If anything Microsoft has taught us this... Do not allot a single company so much power else single CEO's chairmen and Executives that do not code anything get insanely rich.

If it were only the coders who made money, there wouldn't be anyone to run the business.

It is easy for us to now 'Give Microsoft a break' when we all see how short it comes with compared to Open Source.

From of very skewed perspective, perhaps it comes up short. Many of Microsoft's products are of good quality. And several open-source projects have very annoying bugs as well.

Vista does not compare to Ubuntu and BERYL. Open Office is free.

So don't compare them. Personally, I find Aero much nicer to use. And Open Office hardly compares to MS Office.

Did you know that the minda / Bill Gates Charity foundation was formed to spend charities money in order to avoid the I.R.S. ? I do not feel sorry for all the BMW driving a-holes in Redmond that do not contribute a line of code yet take golfing trips and enjoy all their money and freedom while M$ outsources programmer jobs from India, Germany, Russia and China and Japan and... on and on...

Did you know that most people who have any money and any sense whatsoever use similar loopholes? Not that Bill would have to bat an eyebrow to pay taxes... I …

Grub is the bootloader. It should show a menu for you to select an operating system. Is it doing that?

I'm glad I don't have a chance of suffering from that... :P

oh yeah,well then is naruto anime?Probably not. He says Believe it every 5 seconds,I don't watch it, and probably never will, unless I can get my hands on the authentic anime in Japanese.

You just contradicted yourself. It is an anime, but it's been butchered by American censorship. Not that it was all that impressive beforehand, but I can only imagine how bad it's gotten - I only watched it in Japanese, I'm scared of how bad it must be on American TV.

I'd suggest taking a look at Debian (from which Ubuntu is based), but I will say that I've never used it myself.

>Is there a better compiler collection than gcc?
Subjective. VS and XCode are both good for their respective platforms. I know they're IDEs, but that's what people tend to care about.
>Is there a better shell than bash?
Subjective. Some people prefer features of csh, ksh or zsh, or else they wouldnt get used.
>Is there a better editor than emacs ;-) ?
Of course. It's called vim. :P
>Is there a better wm than ratpoison or evilwm? (for my tastes that is)
Highly subjective, as you noted. I prefer something that does look decent and a little mouse movement won't kill a guy.
>Is there cooler special effects than beryl?
Subjective. I found beryl to be too distracting/too much hassle to get the way I wanted and so I got rid of it. Both Aqua and Aero are nice looking without requiring any configuration and without being obstructive.
>Is there a better web server than apache?
Subjective. IIS is much easier to deal with if you want to develop with .NET technologies. As to which is more secure, I'll leave the discussion to people who know more than I.
>Is there a better OS dev VMmachine than bochs?
Never heard of it till now. Most people probably aren't worried about OS development though. :icon_wink:
>Is there a better browser than firefox?
Subjective. Firefox does have issues.
>Is there a better email client than …

With a really slow computer I recommend i686 cpu optimization. You can only get that with a few distros, and debian is not one of them.

Assuming of course that it's an i686 architecture. If it's an AMD chip, it's more likely at that age to be i586.

My room. I don't really get a thrill going on vacations, I just enjoy spending time with people. Otherwise, I like to sit in my room and either read or knit or spend time on the computer.

I bet she'll just do it all over again within the next couple years...

They have weird customs though.. their grandparents live with them, you must take your shoes off before entering their house, etc.. :D

Neither of those are very weird in most of the world...

wow, medical people get paid so much more in the US than they do in our NHS......

It varies. I think my mom makes around $80k/yr but the cost of living around here is fairly high, though not as much as some places. It's certainly not the wages of a doctor with his/her own practice.

Before this topic dies, I'll bring it back! muahaha!

I voted for application programming, which I consider to include web applications as well. Application design is of considerable interest, especially with regard to operating systems and security considerations.

lol, what a well written test.

Thats nothing compared to what professional athletes make.. which is complete bogus :(

So true... I mean, at least doctors are doing something productive

Well, anesthesiologists have an average annual salary of $300,000+ ...

I thought to myself "no wai!" but it seems you're right... what the hell kind of job pays that much on average? :icon_eek: Oh, wait... that one

Not that I've done day trading before, but be careful during Amateur Hour(TM). It's called that for a reason. Aside from that, some people have systems which depend very much on short term candlestick patterns. You might give that a shot... I do, of course, recommend practicing with a virtual trading account before using a new system with real money...

sigh... you guys make it too easy to track you... think of the potential consequences... :P

Right.
But what I was trying to say, is certifications are still good to have along with experience.
Yes, of course everyone should advance with degrees, I think they say a whole lot more about your knowledge than certifications. That's why after I get my certification, I will be studying to get my BSN and MSN in nursing.

The medical field is a little different from the tech field when it comes to certifications. The tech field holds little value for certifications once a certain level of experience is reached. While I'm not in the medical field, I'd bet that interview processes are quite different; tech interviews are straight to the point, and if you can answer it on paper, you can do it at your workstation. How to perform a medical operation, however, is harder to test in an interview, so using certifications to assert that the interviewee knows the process makes more sense.

Btw Christina, I was actually talking with my mom (who's an RN) about a week ago about degree programs (started by mentioning how funny it is that for software developers getting a Masters doesn't change your job positions much, and how a PhD in CS precludes most programming jobs), and she mentioned that nursing was pretty similar. She has an Associates, but the only difference between her and someone with a BS or MS is that the higher degree tends to be helpful for getting a more managerial position. There may be …

some stock went up 45% today, sure... penny stocks, most likely, that you'd be hard pressed to find before they moved. By time you get anything from the mainstream media, they'll be reporting it because it moved 45%. You won't earn your money back by jumping into this. All stocks should go up, afterall.

You'll lose money day trading. I'd almost bet on it. For news, if it makes it to MSNBC, you've missed your chance - by then everyone knows about it. There are some sites (including brokers) that provide streaming quotes, but often you'll need a subscription for that and/or other services.

$@ is all of the parameters passed to the script. For instance, if you call ./someScript.sh foo bar $@ will be equal to foo bar . I have never seen the context Serunson described (actually, I got an error trying to use it...)

I don't think true and false are keywords in ANSI C either, but it does recognize the difference with a couple keywords:

bool c = false;
int new, delete;

bool cpp = true;
int new, delete;

>my server has SCSI disks and they are called SDx
I forgot about SCSI. But IDE and SATA both use hdx.

My SATA showed up as sda back when I had Linux on it...

Okay, and if you have no linux experience?

Well, it really depends on the mindset of the person, the RHCE and RHCT certifications "shouldn't" be hard for someone that uses Linux on a regular basis, but they do provide enough of a challenge that those who study the book, without hands on experience, won't be able to perform the tasks.

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Not really.

Not that anyone's surprised by your opinion slinging without a supportive argument...

I haven't been keeping tabs on any, so I can't really say. These are just a few I've pulled up real quick.

Apple (AAPL) has been doing great for the last couple years for a longer term perspective. IBM has done well over tge past year, and has even broken out ot a 5-year high about a month ago. Boeing (BA) has also been making a good run. Federated Dept. Stores (FD) has been following a pretty good channel for the last year or so. You'd have to play it in pieces, but it could work. Noble Energy (NBL) and Xto Energy (XTO) have also been pretty steady for a few years. Stryker Corp (SYK) has had a very good year as well.

Mind you, I just ran through my old list of things and picked a handful based on their long term trends. And again, go over everything yourself before getting into a trade.

Also, I agree with linux and sturm that most programmers do, in fact, use linux..

That would be factual data; there's no agreeing or disagreeing. I would be a little surprised if that were, in fact, true.

The OS will often not recognize the hardware. Installers will come with a ton of drivers ready to load, and then install the ones appropriate for your system. When you then take your install and put it on new hardware, sometimes you'll need a newer driver for something. Probably better to just reinstall at that point...