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Daren Scot Wilson:
I live in Orlando, apparently the Mecca of the simulation world.? Job searches often turn up positions in which secret clearances are needed.? These local companies make aircraft simulators, military weapons trainers, large machine repair training simulators, etc.? Many of these companies have military customers.? Recruiters have been calling me since January telling me about one position or another in simulation.

This may sound exciting to some people, but being more peace oriented, I’m concerned about working for military customers.? Perhaps that can be avoided; there are plenty of civilian commercial projects too.

Also, some say that simulation software development is a fairly closed world where you practically have to already be a member to join.? But then, I’m not sure what to believe, as I’ve never been in this world and have only a sketchy impression.? (I don’t give a lot of weight to what recruiters say.)

What I like about simulation is the combination of software development with 3D graphics, geometry, physics and high-performance number crunching.? The pay is good, too.? So I don’t know if it’s wise to go for a job in simulation.? Has anyone been in this world, who can describe what it’s really like in there, and answer my concerns?

I have had nothing but problems Saving and Accessing my work. I hate Vista and think there should be a free replacement to XP. I lose work every

House Industries joins forces with 60’s textile design icon Alexander Girard to present a new line of playful fonts and objects. In this age of greening and Woodstock anniversaries, Girard’s joyful objects and shapes with their roots in the

The Opera Desktop Team released two new snapshots today both with and without their Opera Unite service. While the development team is making good progress it seems that it won’t be part of the upcoming 10.0 release after all.

Opera Unite was introduced sometime later than the first beta of Opera 10 and it seems that the development unfortunately won’t be able to finish it in time to be included in the Opera 10.0 release. Instead, as the Opera Desktop Team blog suggests, it will be part of Opera 10.10, which will be released as soon as possible.

Of course as soon as possible means once it has met the standards of Opera’s QA department. Of course this will be a slight disappointment, but Opera 10.0 still comes with a lot of improvements on it’s own.

To try the latest snapshots (with or without Unite), as well as the full changelog, go to the Opera Desktop Team blog. Be sure to report any (critical) issues as with the splitting in 10.0 and 10.10 the final release should be relatively near.

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Forum: Linux On Laptops / Netbooks / Minibooks
Posted By: singleton
Post Time: 08-23-2009 at 10:59 AM

A number of anti-virus vendors are reporting new malware that takes a slightly different approach than the norm.
BitDefender and Kaspersky refer to the virus as Win32.Induc.A.
What is different about this virus is that it compromises systems running the Delphi compiler. Once the compiler itself is compromised all resulting code generated by the compiler is also infected. The virus is relatively simple in that it only wants to propogate, no other payload has been utilized.
A funny side effect is that in the few days since this virus has been detected in the wild, a number of trojans have been discovered to be affected with the virus. Obviously they were compiled with an infected Delphi compiler.
According to the people over at BitDefender the easiest way to detect if your Delphi instance is infected is to check if their compilers’ Lib folder contains a SysConst.bak file (the most obvious sign of infection) and to rename it to SysConst.dcu if it exists, overwriting the compromised file, then recompile their applications.
Special thanks to reader Artyom for pointing us to this story.
Update:
A commenter dusted some cobwebs out of my brain by pointing to a paper I read as a lowly undergrad some 25 years ago. Ken Thompson of Bell Labs fame presented a paper to the Turing Award Lecture entitled Reflections on Trusting Trust. In this paper Mr. Thompson mentions the concept of compromising the Unix login binary by first infecting the compiler.
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The team has fallen far short in the most recent iteration. What should they do?

The traditional CSM course is only two days. That’s not enough time to cover the things a ScrumMaster needs to know to help their team be successful.

Mr. Smith:
In our IT shop, we have started a new process of using traceability matrix. Our managers have asked the developers to start capturing as much functionality as possible upfront. Actually, what we are doing is that we are writing high-level business requirement first for the requested features and then making them single-line statement capturing all the specific functionality. It’s one-to-many relationship between requirement and specific functionality. For instance, the behavior of the buttons, navigation, message prompts, enabling and disabling, and so forth.

The idea of this exercise is to make sure that we capture every possible scenario for the desired feature; thus reducing the number of defects and avoiding missing features. A lot of times, testers open defects for scenarios that actually do not reflect the real world scenarios. I do understand that the design should be done in such a way that the user is unable to break the application. However, our application is highly flexible and customized for each client. Not all the functionality is applicable for the all the clients, so we find a middle ground where we see if such a scenario can happen in the client’s workflow. And, if not, then it’s the user’s training issue.

Initially, I liked the idea, thinking this process will familiarize each developer thoroughly with the specific requirements and reduce bugs that are missed during development. But as I am doing this now, it’s getting too detailed and I am finding it difficult to stay focused. Personally, I would’ve prefered the iterative process to start building something in smaller pieces, but we have strict deadlines and the scope lock is a must before the development can begin. Any delay spawns a process of deviation for the project.

Any thoughts…if this is an approach in the right direction? Or, it’s just me who is feeling lazy on Friday :).

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