Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 3, Insightful) 909
That is why you have to have coding standards...
I'd also hope you never have 1 person in charge of 3M lines of code.
Mars, Mercury May Have Formed From Earth and Venus 73
goran72 sends along a report on a radical new theory of planet formation that suggests that Mars and Mercury were formed from the scraps of Earth and Venus. The theory has testable predictions — for example that the compositions of the rocky inner planets should be more similar than the current theory of planet formation would have them.
Comment Re:Missing option: (Score 1) 887
+1 for walking.
Comment Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Score 1) 517
by W. Richard Stevens (1st) edition and added to by Stephen Rago (2nd edition).
If you need to program in *nix this is a must have reference.
Submission + - Mac Developer Mulls Zero-day Security Response
1.6 Beta writes: Landon Fuller, the Mac programmer/Darwin developer behind the 'month of Apple fixes' project, plans to expand the initiative to roll out zero-day patches for issues that put Mac OS X users at risk of code execution attacks. The former engineer in Apple's BSD Technology Group has already shipped a fix for a nasty flaw in Java's GIF image decoder and hints an an auto-updating mechanism for the third-party patches. From the article: "Perhaps [it could be] the Mac OS equivalent to ZERT," Fuller said, referring to the Zero-day Emergency Response Team, a group of respected security pros that offer unofficial patches during malware crises."
Submission + - Gates: Vista so secure it could run life support
een625 writes: "Journalist: Let's imagine a hospital where life support systems are running Vista. Would you trust it with your life?
Bill Gates: Security has been the top priority for Microsoft for quite some time ...
The answer to your question is that, absolutely, Vista is the most secure operating system we've ever done, and if it's administered properly, absolutely, it can be used to run a hospital or any kind of mission crytical thing.
Full interview here"
