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What do you mean?
No it's very real.
Are you admiring the gobs of security fixes??
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/* When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing... Now, God only knows */
"Remote execution of code" means basically these are probably all buffer overflow bugs. A common occurrence, unfortunately.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
I thought freshmeat was mainly for open-source projects, I just now read that it includes closed-source proprietary. It still doesn't make much sense if you ask me, might as well post Windows KBs on there. Who cares.Originally Posted by C_ntua
And you think what would make sense was to only display open source software, when they can also display proprietary software?
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
All the Adobe products I rely on from day to day are in general:
- Slow
- Unstable
- Bug-ridden
- Memory and system hogs
- All have non-standard non-intuitive interfaces
- Insist on doing dialogs their way instead of just using Microsoft Common Dialog Boxes
Not a big fan of any of their products except for PhotoShop. Even that program pretty much takes over the system. Adobe CS4 pretty much crashes 4 to 5 times during any normal usage. When in Rome do as the Romans do. When in Windows do as other Windows apps do - use the common dialog boxes.
Last edited by VirtualAce; 08-22-2010 at 10:16 AM.
Arrogance breeds bad code
My point exactly.
And yes Mario, I only thought they should display open-source software projects. I mean, that's what everyone uses that site for, no?
*shrug*
The site has a fairly good API for accessing the database. A lot of little widgets, RSS readers, and things read it. I'm a little surprised more restricted applications don't use it.
Soma
Did they stop displaying open-source projects?
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
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