Re: XML

2010-04-27 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 16:02, James Laver wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:53:51PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: >> What did the "S" in "SOAP" stand for again? I keep forgetting. Nothing >> comes to mind, really. > > It doesn't any more. Microsoft had an epiphany that SOAP was not a > simple obj

Re: XML

2010-04-27 Thread James Laver
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:53:51PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > What did the "S" in "SOAP" stand for again? I keep forgetting. Nothing > comes to mind, really. It doesn't any more. Microsoft had an epiphany that SOAP was not a simple object access protocol and gave up the expansion. --James

Re: XML

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Corlett
On 27 Apr 2010, at 14:32, James Laver wrote: [...] It's telling that at a large FTSE 250 we were hand constructing the xml (with string concatenation, no less) to get around the shitty libraries problem. Funnily enough, that's what *I* had to resort to when dealing with SOAP at a FTSE250 comp

Re: XML

2010-04-27 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 15:47, Peter Corlett wrote: > On 27 Apr 2010, at 14:32, James Laver wrote: > [...] >> It's telling that at a large FTSE 250 we were hand constructing the xml >> (with string concatenation, no less) to get around the shitty libraries >> problem. > > Funnily enough, that's wh

Re: XML

2010-04-27 Thread James Laver
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:32:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: > In the same vein: > > Subject: SOAP It's telling that at a large FTSE 250 we were hand constructing the xml (with string concatenation, no less) to get around the shitty libraries problem. --James

Re: XML

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua Juran
On Apr 27, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Peter Corlett wrote: On 27 Apr 2010, at 13:28, Dave Brown wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:11:24PM +0100, Matthew King wrote: [nothing but the subject line] Indeed. 'nuff said. *seconded* In the same vein: Subject: SOAP No REST for the wicked. Josh

Re: XML

2010-04-27 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 14:32, Peter Corlett wrote: > In the same vein: > > Subject: SOAP Quite. -- Philip Newton

Re: XML

2010-04-27 Thread Dave Brown
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:11:24PM +0100, Matthew King wrote: > [nothing but the subject line] Indeed. 'nuff said. --Dave

Re: XML

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Corlett
On 27 Apr 2010, at 13:28, Dave Brown wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:11:24PM +0100, Matthew King wrote: >> [nothing but the subject line] > Indeed. 'nuff said. *seconded* In the same vein: Subject: SOAP

XML

2010-04-27 Thread Matthew King

IE7 'runonce'

2010-04-27 Thread Smylers
Yes, I know IE7 is a soft target, but today is the first day I've ever used it. (Relatedly, I'm hating HR software which only works in IE, but that's so hateful I'd need to book a day's holiday to rant about it all. And of course booking that day off would involve having to use ...). On running it

Re: Credit card numbers and passwords

2010-04-27 Thread jjl
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:55:48PM +0200, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > I don't think credit card companies live in the same universe we do. > Take Verified By Visa. Its basically a XSS exploit. Worse, it wants me > to make up a secure password to associated with my credit card. The > passwor

Re: Credit card numbers and passwords

2010-04-27 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:55:48PM +0200, Michael G Schwern wrote: > I don't think credit card companies live in the same universe we do. Take > Verified By Visa. Its basically a XSS exploit. Worse, it wants me to make Indeed. Originally, for branding reasons, encouraged to be implemented as

Re: Credit card numbers and passwords

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua Juran
On Apr 11, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote: Joshua Juran wrote: I want them to test their site with Firefox, observe that it asks to save the password with the plaintext credit card number as the user name, and realize that this is a bad idea. For extra credit, they might realize t

Re: Credit card numbers and passwords

2010-04-27 Thread jjl
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:55:48PM +0200, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > I don't think credit card companies live in the same universe we do. > Take Verified By Visa. Its basically a XSS exploit. Worse, it wants me > to make up a secure password to associated with my credit card. The > passwor

Re: Credit card numbers and passwords

2010-04-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
Joshua Juran wrote: I want them to test their site with Firefox, observe that it asks to save the password with the plaintext credit card number as the user name, and realize that this is a bad idea. For extra credit, they might realize that asking for the same password a second time is (at b

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:58:18 -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:28 PM, wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:18:00PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >> (And no, I don't want you sorting by track name. That doesn't work for > >> classical music) > > > > Perhaps you see your

Re: Credit card numbers and passwords

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua Juran
On Apr 10, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2010-04-10, at 11:57, Joshua Juran wrote: I just updated a service with my new credit card number. I logged into their billing system with the credentials that Firefox remembered from last time. Then in the form in which I enter the ne

Re: Credit card numbers and passwords

2010-04-27 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2010-04-10, at 11:57, Joshua Juran wrote: I just updated a service with my new credit card number. I logged into their billing system with the credentials that Firefox remembered from last time. Then in the form in which I enter the new credit card number, I'm asked again for the passw

Credit card numbers and passwords

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua Juran
I just updated a service with my new credit card number. I logged into their billing system with the credentials that Firefox remembered from last time. Then in the form in which I enter the new credit card number, I'm asked again for the password. Curiously, it's blank. But that's oka

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Timothy Knox
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:13:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Last night, I was wondering why nothing new was showing up for a > particular podcast that I like to listen to. > > Hidden in a corner was a tiny light grey icon, which on clicking it told > me that it ha

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
Aristotle Pagaltzis writes: > * David Cantrell [2010-04-09 14:15]: > >> Naturally, there is no way that I can see of turning off this >> wonderful feature. > > I fail to understand why people bake this sort of feature (some > way to penalize "inactive" feeds) into aggregation software. Because R

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:40:10PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:35:35PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:27PM +, j...@jameslaver.com wrote: > >> "we know better than you how you should use our software, and we'll > >> disable any pos

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:35:35PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: >On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:27PM +, j...@jameslaver.com wrote: >> "we know better than you how you should use our software, and we'll >> disable any possibility of using it in any other way and not even tell >> you about some

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:27PM +, j...@jameslaver.com wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:17:35PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > > While Apple is certainly not the only company with an ethos of "we know > > better than you how you should use our software, and we'll disable any > > possib

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:28 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:18:00PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >> (And no, I don't want you sorting by track name. That doesn't work for >> classical music) > > Perhaps you see your mistake was in trying to listen to classical music. > Steve only listens

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread jjl
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:18:00PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > (And no, I don't want you sorting by track name. That doesn't work for > classical music) Perhaps you see your mistake was in trying to listen to classical music. Steve only listens to U2 and jazz. --James

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:27PM +, j...@jameslaver.com wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:17:35PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > > > > While Apple is certainly not the only company with an ethos of "we know > > better than you how you should use our software, and we'll disable any > > p

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread jjl
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:17:35PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > > While Apple is certainly not the only company with an ethos of "we know > better than you how you should use our software, and we'll disable any > possibility of using it in any other way" it does seem to be the one > that make

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:13:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: >Naturally, there is no way that I can see of turning off this wonderful >feature. While Apple is certainly not the only company with an ethos of "we know better than you how you should use our software, and we'll disable any possibi

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Nandor
On Apr 9, 2010, at 05:13, David Cantrell wrote: Hidden in a corner was a tiny light grey icon, which on clicking it told me that it had stopped retrieving updates because I hadn't listened to anything for ages. OF COURSE I HADN'T LISTENED! THERE WEREN'T ANY UPDATES FOR THREE MONTHS! I think

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David Cantrell [2010-04-09 14:15]: > Naturally, there is no way that I can see of turning off this > wonderful feature. I fail to understand why people bake this sort of feature (some way to penalize "inactive" feeds) into aggregation software. Isn't *the whole point* of feeds that I can conti

iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread David Cantrell
Last night, I was wondering why nothing new was showing up for a particular podcast that I like to listen to. Hidden in a corner was a tiny light grey icon, which on clicking it told me that it had stopped retrieving updates because I hadn't listened to anything for ages. OF COURSE I HADN'T LISTE

more iTunes hate

2010-04-27 Thread Omry Yadan
Dear iTunes, if you can't find the file of a podcast for some reason, don't ask me to locate it. just re-download the fuc*ing thing! Ever so hateful.

svn

2010-04-27 Thread Nicholas Clark
svn: UUID mismatch: existing directory 'NBX/DD-Web' was checked out from a different repository Yes. Exactly. In my current checked out reversion it's an external. In the revision I want to update to, it's moved into this repository. It's your damn metadata, isn't it? How come you can't cope?