News.com: Will code-check tools make for worm-proof software? |
Wow. $60M for Intrinsa. Nice dough for a software development tool.
Sounds bogus to me. I doubt that this guy has seen results from a decent source code checker. Damage estimates from the MSBlast and Sasser worms, while inflated, make his "destroy the economics" statement laughable. Lint is not a decent source code checker nowadays. PC-lint was okay when I looked at it several years ago, it has a relatively high hurdle to get good results. The typo.pl perl script is good for finding obvious errors. Microsoft's PREfix is in a different, better league. If we could get developers to stop using plain null-terminated strings, we'd get rid of the easy exploits. |
The Seattle Times: Microsoft: Microsoft cuts some perks with an eye on bottom line |
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Building VC6-compatible code with VC++ Toolkit 2003 |
I tried to compile some code that works in VC6 with the VC++ 2003 Toolkit. I've got VS.Net 2003 but I keep on hearing how bloody slow the IDE is, even though a) this is MS's second go at the .Net IDE, and b) people complaining about the IDE speed have decent machine configs. Unfortunately there were errors when compiling. Some of the errors were due to errors in the ATL template code where the specialized template code didn't use actual args. Some errors were due to new features in VC7 that aren't supported by the supplied toolkit libraries (/GZ and /RTCx switches need some functions that only exist in the single-threaded LIBC[D].LIB). Here are some useful links:
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VHJ: Bits & Bytes: The P4 is Dead |
A decent read on why the P4 sucked no matter how much Intel tried to pretty-up that pig of a CPU. |
Flaws drill holes in open-source databases | CNET News.com |
The writer, Robert Lemos, thinks that CVS and Subversion are database apps. Boggles the miind. He just doesn't get it. |
Bad Signs For Bush In History, Numbers (washingtonpost.com) |
I guess history won't be able to help us predict the next President of the USA.
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Yahoo boosts free e-mail storage to 100MB | CNET News.com |
Let's see if Hotmail decides to join the game. Then both Yahoo and Hotmail would have to code up an ActiveX control to keep up with GMail's user interface run by an ActiveX control. |
Duke News & Communications: News Tip: Blackout Baby Boom a Myth, Duke Professor Says |
The prof is taking the fun out of all the tongue-n-cheek news reports. |
Computerworld.com: Living Down to a Low Standard |
Nicholas Petreley blames, (facetiously, perhaps?), SCO and MS moles for screwing up the Nautilus file mananger in the latest GNOME, 2.6. How lame. There have been many recent diatribes about how most open source developers do not 'get' UI. This is just another example. Beggars can't be choosers. Live with the crap. Any forecasts of a desktop Linux in the next few years will mean a lot of pain for users because much of the open source GUI software just hasn't been thought through. |
New York Post Online Edition: business |
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MSNBC - Spartan diet may slow aging |
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The New York Times: Record Labels Must Pay Shortchanged Performers |
Boy, record companies are either lazy and/or neglectful and/or evil.
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