Luci Sandor’s blog

No, this isn’t a book published on O’Reilly, it’s just a scam network in Romania. IHT has a story on phishing and in the end you can learn that a romanian thieves’ network was closed.

This seems really out of order, because AFAIK they are bribing the cops. But, anyway, if you really think that you can buy anything from a country where mean income is 130$, go ahead and send me all your money.

How hard would that be? I’ve moved from Hotmail to POP3 and I gave a try to Mozilla.

The spam control feature is documented with the clever words “text to come”. That’s as predicted because they, as a veritable Fleury follower, are requesting a fee for phone support. Of course, if I do care to call the antipodes, I deserve to be billed.

Than downloading the same message three times. What’s the mechanism that made it so easy in Outlook Express or MS Outlook? Is it such a clever thing? Even Pine would do better.

So, I gathered some questions, let’s go to Netscape’s NNTP server. Is it a hash? Is it UIDL? Well, my first answer was “try virus”. I did tried it, thanks, no virus was on my likes. After some hours, I learn that the proggy removes the mail from the server only when closed. Let’s suppose a masochistic guy does open and close the proggy only to read mails in a fancy way. But how about the messages I didn’t deleted and they still come in pairs? The first guy answers me: “please, no snipping”.

Well, this proves MSDN is useless and Microsoft should split in order to achieve such a failure for a mail client.

And now the guy asks for some 25 milions $ in compensation. He and Sherman Networks had no written contract.

The man now works for Microsoft and he seemed to get the best way to do business.

At the beginnings of this blog you can find a rant about ZDNet incompetent journalists. Mainly, a story writer describes his experience in Windows Update, the fact that he doesn’t know how to use the site, but, being an expert user, managed to stop Automatic Updates.

I’ve predicted that stupid IT journalists can be easy found in India.

This morning I’ve learned from Slashdot that Builder.com, another part of CNet network, is outsourced to India. "Where the unprofessional journalism looks better" …

ACME setup was used in Microsoft Office (until 2000), in Visual Studio 6, and it is still used for Internet Explorer. (more…)

Markus Niefer pinpoints the usability of OpenWatcom IDE as a Java editor.

Essentially, you need to

1. provide the keywords file (java.dat, saved in your watcom directory, under eddat subdirectory)
2. customize the highlighting (Options->File specific…)
3. edit the wedit.ini file (in you Windows directory) to insert under the section filetypesource *.java the entries set grepdefault *.java and set language 4

The link for java.dat is dead, just copy/paste the lines below in your text editor

—BEGIN COPY BELOW THIS LINE—

45

abstract

boolean

break

byte

case

catch

char

class

continue

default

do

double

else

extends

final

finally

float

for

if

implements

import

instanceof

int

interface

long

native

new

package

private

protected

public

return

short

static

super

switch

synchronized

this

throw

throws

transient

try

void

volatile

while

—END COPY BEFORE THIS LINE—

The file must begin with the number of keywords in the first line alone.

Thanks Rick Ross for not allowing uploads on JRoller, based on file extension, so I should rename the file .GIF and the server won’t filter it.

Anyway don’t expect big things from Watcom editor, it is mostly a proof of concept. You can go beyond Notepad without buying UltraEdit or any fast editor, and you also get to learn C, the dead language.

We’re on Jlobby space, so I’ll post a handful of nice links about Java:
Java, Language of Tomorrow
Java - the first fear-oriented language
Java is the SUV of programming tools
java sucks
Appeal to novelty
The Tao of Programming
Understanding Object Oriented Programming
all seen through the lens of basic laws of human stupidity
and found through the discussion Java: Failure or Crime?

"To me C is dead. Except for the JIT!", said Icaza.

To me, the embedded systems have the biggest market share in CPU world and the aren’t programmable in C#. To me, there is no commercial operating system written in anything else but C/C++. To me, there is no serious app written in C#/Mono - no need for the overhead, thanks, Miguel.

In the same article, we are learning that C# does "compile" so fast, almost real-time. We are learning that Gnome will receive the last and deadly fist in the fight with KDE, because they are willing to write its next version on Mono. Perhaps the current version seems too fast.

Maybe the reader won’t be happy with the leftists’ victory in Sunday Spain election. Maybe the reader doesn’t agree with the withdrawal of spanish troops from Iraq. But no one can deny what I’ve posted Saturday - no one can risk people lives and than put the blame on ETA or IRA or whatever it suits.