You forgot to mention: "Processor: Duel Core 2.1ghz or Higher". I guess "Duel core" is a good idea it you do a lot of gaming.
Posts made by Unixwolf
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RE: The sad state of Steam (not software bugs, for once)
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RE: A small security update
COM+ was state-of-the-art in 2001.
At least it wasn't a proprietary
http://www.networkcomputing.com/careers-and-certifications/just-say-no-to-proprietary-cryptographic-algorithms/a/d-id/1230781?
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RE: A small security update
Early part of third millennium. Microsloths 3 layer architecture. A lot of
VB, COM+ etc...The issue was that generally that external entities were supposed to
establish an encrypted link right through our firewalls. Ha Ha Ha! We'd
just point, laugh, and say WTF?The SYSTEMIC issue was that the project owners were able to put proposals
to management, get funds and do a whole lot of work when they had
completely missed the fact that the bank had a project management policy
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RE: A small security update
"banks ... live in a different world." I spent a number of years working in the IT security dept of a very large bank. They took security very, very seriously indeed. The role was in fact mainly policing the brain-dead internal business projects. I remember we killed several projects that had spent tens of thousands developing insecure apps and now wanted us to deliver a security "blessing".
On the other hand, while working for the service provider from hell, I discovered that one of our customers was running a little bank on a machine I could've picked up and carried out the door.
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RE: COBOL Quick Guide
Steve, don't talk about 60 bit characters like that! These buggers
might hear you!
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RE: COBOL Quick Guide
I recently had to explain to a retired mainframe programmer, why the mix of
5 bit codes and encryption (pre 1950 style) didn't mix very well, which
meant that the poor old sigops had to spell out numbers.
Among my treasures -- IBM flowchart stencil, Faber-Castell Novo Duplex 2/83
slide rule etc - is my old HP-16 Computer Scientist Calculator. It dates
from about 1987, and is probably the first "virtual machine" I ever saw. I
can set flags to adjust the word size (16 - 64 bits) and switch between 1's
and 2's complement arithmetic. Imagine trying to write C string processing
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RE: COBOL Quick Guide
COBOL was developed along time ago -- sometime around the K-Pg boundary. Way back then systems used 6 bit codes. That meant ten digits, a couple of control characters, a little bit of punctuation, and one alphabet. As every good monotheist knows, you can't spell GOD in an all lower case alphabet.
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RE: Algorythmics Hiring
- Select all text in advertisement.
- Copy.
3, Move to end of cover letter. - Paste in ad (leave it selected);
- Change font colour to white.
- Change font size to 1 pt.
Gets an interview every time!
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RE: It's like Three Card Monte with source control, Part 1
This sounds just like Pdfium. Some droob is currently working their way through the (C++) code changing all occurrences of "0" to "nullptr". They were up to number 208 as at 30 June. We now have boolean expressions like "ptr == NULL", "ptr == 0", and "ptr == nullptr" in the same file.
So now I can create my own mini-fork and create a new header: "#define nullptr 0", Alternately I can upgrade to VS2013 and g++ 5.whatever.
Naturally the Google style guide says in essence not to change existing code.
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RE: Is it something in the water?
It very possibly IS something in the water.