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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
The root of the problem here is that 1. A lot (most) people do not have any security enabled on their PCs (logged in as admin at all times) 2. Majority of software installs require admin privileges by default. Of course, the guilty party he
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
Uhm... No. Not then and not today.
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
Do I read this right? Is somebody suggesting teaching kernel to read some stupid shit MS "PE binaries"!? Go, Linus. Let kernel NOT even boot on these secure boot machines, see who runs back crying first. Dells and HPs of the world are alrea
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
Meh. Let this kill the default Java install on Windows. When I need to deliver an app written in Java to the end user I just include my own JRE. You have to do it pretty much anyway in order to guarantee that your app works regardless of qu
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
DNS tunneling is only good in theory. Ah, good old days. There was time (2003?) when I had a T-Mobile phone with GPRS and an IR port. I connected it to my laptop and discovered DNS lookups worked. Downloaded DNS tunnel sources, compiled an
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
Nothing easier than Linux. 1. Download zip archive 2. Install into $HOME. 3. Switch symlink from old version to new. Done. I have 3 different JDKs installed at the moment.
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
Sandboxing in JVM is broken. Server code does not rely on that (most of the time). Sandboxing is inherently insecure. It usually comes with appropriate warnings (ex: Python) and everybody is expected to understand that it is a half measure
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
That's pretty silly. Why?
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
This has nothing to do with Java. It's a browser plugin issue. Disable the plugin and forget.
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
JVM is pretty much the only platform, unless you want to be Windows-only. This however has absolutely nothing to do with Java browser plugin. The sooner that thing dies the better. Just disable the "Java plugin" in the browser and forget ab
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
No, it does not. This is non-news. Agreed, nobody uses that anymore, nobody should.
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
The only way I am going to see Windows 8 is with a new PC (which is a few years away, next purchase is probably an Apple product), or at work. At work the IT dept will hopefully skip this version all together, or take a few years before "ap
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
Oh come on! I am in mid-forties and not just did not have any problems getting interviews, but also did not have any problems switching jobs a few months ago. Where I work we can't find enough decent devs for any money. H1-B is just a memor
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
In a sense none of the "JVM languages" are affected: apparently it's a bug in the Web applets sandbox implementation. It's not something used by standalone Java (or whatever) programs. It only matters if you are running Java applets off a w
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
Another browser plugin hole? Yawn. It's disabled in Firefox and Chrome anyway. Let them disable it for good and enable by exception. Who uses Java in browser anyway? WebEx and some weird VPN solutions?
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by foohbarbaz 15y ago
Has anybody seen like real people buying Windows phones? Meh. Zune.