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OK, now THAT is AWESOME!!!
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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An international effort by spam fighters has taken down the infamous Grum botnet, slashing in half the worldwide amount of spam email.
Grum's last servers were taken offline in Russia on Wednesday, effectively killing the botnet that has no fallback mechanism, said Atif Mushtaq, a researcher at FireEye's security lab, which collaborated with the Russian Computer Security Incident Response Team and the Spamhouse Project in battling Grum.
The only Spam I like: Monthy Python's Spam
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Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem
How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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What? My inbox will be very lonely now.
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SEATTLE — An accounting charge related to Microsoft’s ill-fated acquisition of an online advertising business led to a loss for the software giant’s last quarter, its first in more than two decades as a public company.
Well, loss for the first time, but all other values seems to be ok to me. Once won't hurt.
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Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem
How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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Benchmarque (pronounced bench-mar-key) allows you to create comparative benchmarks using .NET. An example of a comparative benchmark would be evaluating two or more approaches to performing an operation, such as whether for(), foreach(), or LINQ is faster at enumerating an array of items. While this example often falls into the over-optimization category, there are many related algorithms that may warrant comparison when cycles matter. Which is faster? Now you can tell.
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HTTPS tends to cause people to give talks mocking certificate security and the ecosystem around it. Perhaps that's well deserved, but that's not what this talk is about. If you want to have fun at the expense of CAs, dig up one of Moxie's talks. This talk deals with the fact that your HTTPS site, and the sites that you use, probably don't even reach the level where you get to start worrying about certificates. Here are all the ways your HTTPS is all HTTP and no S.
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As you have probably heard the Entity Framework source code is now available under an open source license. This means that the EF team are ready and excited to take your contributions. The process for getting and building the EF code and for making contributions are documented on the EF CodePlex site. This series does not cover that information again but instead gives some context to help you in working with the code. This is the same kind of information that you would get if you joined the EF team. Have fun! They're looking forward to seeing your contributions!
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This graphic is a walkthrough of a simple windows executable, that shows its dissected structure and explains how it's loaded by the operating system. You are *here.
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Smalltalk is a foundational programming language that is based on pervasive message passing, pervasive dynamic strong typing, pervasive reflection and pervasive object orientation. Alan Kay lead the team that invented the Smalltalk computer language and system. See what Alan had to say about learning, computer science and SmallTalk. Smalltalk dot Org's Alan Kay video collection.
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But for all its improvements, the first thing I noticed about the new Office was a big, terrible bug. It’s one of those bugs that masquerades as a feature, a bug so entrenched that lots of people—probably even you—believe it’s an integral part of how computers are supposed to work. This bug has been with us since the beginning of graphical computing... The bug is the Save button. But how would I put all those files on my desktop where I can find them?
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It’s strange to think that the near-vacuum of space could have a smell, and stranger still that humans—atmospheric creatures—can actually experience it. Astronauts have consistently reported the same strange odour after lengthy space walks, bringing it back in on their suits, helmets, gloves and tools. In space, no one can smell your old socks.
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The Office news is relatively low-key by the standard Microsoft has set lately. This upgrade is nowhere near as radical as Windows 8, and it’s not a shocker like the company’s decision to enter the PC business with its own tablets. Everything about it is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Still, there’s a lot of aggressive evolution in the new Office. What is your experience with "Modern Office" so far?
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Quietly anticipating encroachment against basic Internet liberties, concerned cyber privacy advocates has been coding and releasing the tools that allow for private electronic communication and private web surfing. Proposed legislation like CISPA may or may not pass and become law, but if it does we have to understand the new landscape. Your privacy is up to you! Anonymity... is like a warm blanket.
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There has been a great deal of confusion about the differences between and among WinRT, Windows 8, Metro, Metro Applications and etc. While there is no reason to be absolutist or pedantic about these differences, if we are going to communicate effectively we need to understand the fundamental differences. Thus, I offer the following simplifications to get us started... Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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The Entity Framework source code is today being released under an open source license (Apache 2.0), and the code repository is now hosted on CodePlex (using Git) to further increase development transparency. This will enable everyone in the community to be able to engage and provide feedback on code checkins, bug fixes, new feature development and build and test the product on a daily basis using the most up to date version of the source code and tests. Community contributions will also be welcomed, so you can help shape and build Entity Framework into an even better product. You can find all the details on the Entity Framework CodePlex Site.
While I've seen other products open sourced by Microsoft, I'm particularly excited by this one because they intend to allow community contributions.
Be The Noise
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Microsoft going open source? This is almost too crazy to believe.
Is it that their backs have finally been broken by the onslaught of open source technologies consistently surpassing the level of their own proprietary technologies?
Honestly I'd like to see more of this. They don't even really need to allow community contributions, just allow developers to see exactly the source code that they're going to be having to use to develop using the APIs and Interfaces. It's not only helpful to see what you can do, but the precise semantics of exactly what is doing.
Technical writers can describe a program very well, but no matter how verbose they are, they will never be able to precisely describe the behavior of a system. The description will always be of what the system is SUPPOSED to do, what it INTENDS to do, and what it's been DESIGNED to do. No amount of English writing will ever describe those qualities well enough, especially stacked up against the ability to view the actual source code used to attempt to fulfill those design specs.
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It's looking likely that MS are going to have to go to the court of EU opinion again to talk about browsers. This time it's to do with the only allowable WinRT browser being IE. Details here[^].
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So what did the last fight of browsers accomplish. Nothing.
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I thought it changed the proportion of browsers installed on computers that gave users a choice (i.e., people less often used IE). I could swear I recently read that. After a quick search, I found this.
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Since then I think Chrome has overtaken FireFox, but not sure.
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You are correct - It has indeed
-= Reelix =-
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Wrong. It accomplished something. Opera, who instigated the complaint, had a 2.x % market share before the browser choice dialog. Afterwards its share plummeted to 1.x%.
Kevin
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