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Comment Re:Put up or shut up, please (Score 1) 278

by phaylon (#21678989) Attached to: State of the Onion 11
Like I said, it falls deaf ears.

You're not exactly a differenciating butterfly either.

When you read through others' code, you need to read all of it and build a map of it in your head.

Oh dear Cthulhu! Thinking! I'm sorry, but you will have to understand the code with either method, unless VisualStudio includes an USB brain-dongle. Now, do you really think you're in the position to tell me if I'm more comfty in dialogs and a GUI, or by reading the code itself?

(Hint: If you do, that's not a good thing)
Censorship

Egyptian Blogger Silenced by YouTube, Yahoo! 188

Posted by Zonk from the citizen-journalists-need-credentials-now dept.
An anonymous reader writes "An Egyptian human rights activist has been muzzled after YouTube and Yahoo! shut down his accounts. Award-winning blogger Wael Abbas regularly writes and posts video about police brutality, torture and sexual harassment in Egypt. One of the videos — of an Egyptian bus driver being brutalized by an officer — was used as evidence to convict two members of the police force. That's a rare occurrence in a country where human-rights groups say torture is rampant. YouTube said the decision to remove Abbas' videos had nothing to do with the Egyptian government, but was rather an internal decision."

Comment *hmpf* if only that was true (Score 4, Insightful) 535

by tobi-wan-kenobi (#13414614) Attached to: Vista Launch Good for Desktop Linux?
how many people earnestly think it is about usability and security that most people choose their software?
i agree, some of the more sophisticated desktop users might be willing to switch, but much more powerful forces for not switching are: a lot of people don't like serious changes. they know windows (though it might suck), not necessarily the OS, but the brand, so they stick with it.
a lot of companies are either bound by contracts or - more importantly - by internal applications that are broken enough only to work with windows (in that case, to be more specific, mostly word, excel and access).
these are, i think, compelling reasons why a large percentage - mark, percentage, not single individuals - will not want to switch to linux because of what the article states.
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Journal Journal: it's finally starting

Journal by tobi-wan-kenobi
good morning,

today will be the first day of me performing my civil-service (in fact, i already visited the corresponding MA only to be confronted with the fact that i am lacking a document which i can only obtain after 11 o'clock, leaving me with some spare time yet).
i am really looking forward to the work.

anyways, i should get going soon, so i'll leave it at that for the moment.

best regards
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Journal Journal: working early 1

Journal by tobi-wan-kenobi
i know i should not go to work early. right now, i was bored, so i started experimenting with extending the search functions offered by the crm we're currently evaluating... and voila... after 10 minutes, the search mask fulfills all requirements that our management wants... since it is a PHP/MySQL based solution, i blame phaylon for influencing me *g*
i should honestly skip that and start working when i am awake
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Journal Journal: nothing special

Journal by tobi-wan-kenobi
today's entry's purpose is solely keeping up the illusion that i post regularly.

the only thing mentionable is the fact that i put in the registration for a new sf project (some form of vocabulatory trainer, more details later, when the project has either been approved or rejected) and i am thinking about registering a paypal account for receiving donations via sf.
if anyone has made any experiences with such a system, it would be nice to share the insights gained.
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Journal Journal: random thoughts

Journal by tobi-wan-kenobi
yesterday, we went to the movie "der untergang" (no idea of the english translation or if there even is one). roughly summarized, it is some form of documentary about the last days of WWII, picturing the situation in berlin shortly before their surrender.
the movie was striving for objectivity, which it achieved in my opinion. it was threading a narrow and somewhat dangerous path in trying to frame hitler as mad-but-not-entirely-evil and - most importantly - a human being.
what always ho
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Journal Journal: i _love_ acronyms

Journal by tobi-wan-kenobi
currently learning: BER for ASN.1 to make SSO via an AD using KRB (GSSAPI + SPNEGO) possible.

did i mention TLA recently?
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Journal Journal: AD and Kerberos, The Sequel

Journal by tobi-wan-kenobi
just for the record:
recently, i wrote about SSO solutions utilizing kerberos and AD environments together with IE (dis)ability to send previously acquired credentials along with a HTTP request.
in this context, i mentioned that the ordinary GSS-API paket is embedded into a SPNEGO token. today, something interesting popped up: i was testing this method (at an internal presentation, of course) and it did not work. reason was, i was using a win2000 prof pc to connect, whereas in my
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Journal Journal: AD and DNS

Journal by tobi-wan-kenobi
because it annoyed me no end right now:

when a windows 2000 ...ehm... "professional" server doing AD demands an "account" for a computer joining the domain, it really means a DNS entry.
now this might be obvious to everyone who uses this system regularly, but for someone not too used to the m$ way of doing things, it's quite strange.
i was, for instance, not aware of the fact that an AD server _has_ to run DNS, too. now it seems to be like that, as far as i can gathe
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Journal Journal: caffeine as medium to transcendence

Journal by tobi-wan-kenobi
first and foremost, let me sketch what triggered the desire to write this entry. it was a conversation (loosely applied term) with a former university-fellow of mine. she had been online before and reappeared. thus were the ... for lack of a better term ... "words":
re - wb - thx - np
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Journal Journal: on databases

Journal by tobi-wan-kenobi
i am (as already mentioned somewhere) still working on evaluating crm systems. compiere is one of those i want to take a closer look at (j2ee and oracle based, therefore perfectly fitting into the company i currently work at - for better or worse *g*).
fact is: an oracle db has more features than other dbms, o.k. but: what in hell for do i need a nearly 3gig download plus 2.5gig STANDARD installation?!? heck, i'd be able to install mysql, postgres, sybase AND firebird without needing 2.5 gig
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Journal Journal: **No Title**

Journal by tobi-wan-kenobi
still happy... very, very happy. this gotta end soon, or i'll end up as endorphine junkie :-/

well, at least i am reasonably tired, as is custom for a decent programmer :-)

sf.net is currently promoting a contest where os-projects get ported to ppc by -another- developer and the admin of the original project just has to judge the incoming solutions. the price? an IBM iPod. wannahave. cool. pretty. my precioussssss.

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