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Eight PHP IDEs Compared 206

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @11:32AM from the colonic-extraction dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Rick Grehen provides an in-depth comparative review of eight PHP IDEs: ActiveState's Komodo IDE, CodeLobster PHP Edition, Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT), MPSoftware's phpDesigner, NetBeans IDE for PHP, NuSphere's PhpED, WaterProof's PHPEdit, and Zend Studio. 'All of these PHP toolkits offer strong support for the other languages and environments (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL database) that a PHP developer encounters. The key differences we discovered were in the tools they provide (HTML inspector, SQL management system) for various tasks, the quality of their documentation, and general ease-of-use,' Grehen writes.'"

Supreme Court Takes Texting Privacy Case 184

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 14, 2009 @06:51PM from the hi-2-u-juj-scalia dept.

TaggartAleslayer writes with this excerpt from the NYTimes: "The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether a police department violated the constitutional privacy rights of an employee when it inspected personal text messages sent and received on a government pager. The case opens 'a new frontier in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,' according to a three-judge panel of an appeals court that ruled in favor of the employee, a police sergeant on the Ontario, Calif., SWAT team. ... Members of the department's SWAT team were given pagers and told they were responsible for charges in excess of 25,000 characters a month. Under an informal policy adopted by a police lieutenant, those who paid the excess charges themselves would not have their messages inspected. The lieutenant eventually changed his mind and ordered transcripts of messages sent and received by Sgt. Jeff Quon. In one month in 2002, only 57 of more than 456 of those messages were related to official business. According to the trial judge, many of the messages 'were, to say the least, sexually explicit in nature.'"

Comment Re:Infeasible? (Score 1) 759

by Artefacto on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @09:47AM (#29425577) Attached to: Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP

Actually "infeasible" is a valid word: http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=infeasible , it's the same as "unfeasible". Moreover, "in-" is the typical prefix for words of latin origin, so it would be more likely to exist than "unpossible".

Comment Partition the disk and use both (Score 2, Interesting) 569

by Artefacto on Thursday September 10, 2009 @09:21PM (#29385053) Attached to: Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems?

Or you could partition the disk, format the first partition (the only one Windows sees on removable media) with FAT32 and the other one with ext3/whatever when you want to keep the meta-data. The best of both worlds.

Bookmark WPA keys gone in 60 seconds (theregister.co.uk)

by Artefacto on Friday August 28, 2009 @10:36AM

NASA's Skylab $400 Littering Fine Paid By DJ 111

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @12:32PM from the you-gonna-pick-that-up? dept.

astroengine writes "Space Disco speaks with a Californian radio DJ about his role in raising, and paying, NASA's 30-year old littering fine levied by a Western Australian town. Skylab parts fell on Esperance in 1979, but the space agency's refusal to pay $400 has resulted in an entertaining annual grudge. Now the Barstow radio DJ is guest of honor at this weekend's 30th anniversary celebrations in Oz and the two small towns at opposite ends of the Pacific will be twinned... all because Skylab had a messy re-entry..."

Desktop As a Cellphone Extension? 199

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 28, 2009 @05:40PM from the ring-it-on dept.

spaceman375 writes "Like many slashdotters, I've given up on landlines and have only a cell account. The problem: when I am home I don't want to carry my phone on my person, AND I don't want to have to run (possibly up or down stairs) to answer a call. Landlines solved this with extensions. I could go buy an xlink or other Bluetooth-to-POTS solution, but that takes money for equipment. My desktop has Bluetooth, as do my laptop and cell. All I want is a program that can use my cell's Bluetooth to make and receive calls from my Linux PC. I can do this with asterisk or related programs, but that is like buying UPS when I just need a taxi ride. Yet all I can find are programs that either use 'presence' to shift other-sourced calls to my cell, or ways to use a Bluetooth headset when receiving a call on a PC. Has anyone found a way to use their desktop to make and receive calls through their cell via Bluetooth?"

Comment Re:Err... (Score 3, Informative) 219

by Artefacto on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @06:00PM (#26216633) Attached to: Crackpot Scandal In Mathematics

Nature reported this back in November: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081126/full/456432a.html The news is Mohamed El Naschie is going to retire. There are some interesting statistics:

Of the 31 papers not written by El Naschie in the most recent issue of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, at least 11 are related to his theories and include 58 citations of his work in the journal.

And it's actually a theoretical-physics journal, with a relatively high impact factor of 3.025 for 2007.

Comment Re:So is AVG still a good AV prog? (Score 2, Informative) 297

by Artefacto on Sunday July 06, 2008 @08:25AM (#24074113) Attached to: AVG Backs Down From Flooding the Internet

There are solutions for each one of those circumstances:

1. You never open links in search results to sites you have never been to? - If you are running windows using Firefox or IE there have been many cases of 0 day exploits

Run your browser with lower privileges (even if you are a not an administrator, which by itself thwarts most of the virus, which expect otherwise, run it with a constrained token). See http://blogs.msdn.com/nigelwa/archive/2005/07/29/445155.aspx. Additionally, IE7 protected mode under Vista has an excellent record.

2. Do you not use any USB storage devices? - Just this Christmas I purchases a digital photo frame for a family member that had built in storage. low and behold when I went to preload it with photos it was already infected with a virus that was set to use auto play to install.

This one is straight-forward: just deactivate auto-run.

3. You 100% trust EVERY thing your friends or family send you? Document infections are still somewhat common. I suppose using Open office would get you around macro infections but you also might not be able to open company documents then.

This may be a bit more problematic, but macros are usually not set to be run by default. If you are paranoid, you can always run Office apps with less privileges.

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