Actually, it did make the news, just not with a lot of fanfare. They said that Nachi also some ATMs, but nobody in the general press went into a lot of details.
If you google for Nachi ATM, you'll find the first link under the sponsored link is from varlinux.org talking about this very incident.
I used to do a lot of HyperTalk. I even wrotes me some XCMDs in C, baby. (Since lost all the source code.)
You didn't have to refer to the fields and cards by number all the time, you could (and should) give them names and refer to the names instead. Also, as any good programmer would do, you'd use a variable to hold the current card. This is particularly helpful when recursing a stack.
I still have my HyperCard 2.1 disks and most of the stacks I wrote all saved on quickly disintegrating floppies.
As for AppleScript, I've done some of that, too. I would say that it is very useful for automating certain things and for making drag targets. I used to have drag targets on my desktop for doing certain conversions or adding a file/application to a menu, etc. It can be used as a general purpose programming language, but it is ill-suited to that task, and for any seriously complicated scripting on my Mac, I used MacPerl. Since MacPerl does AppleEvents, my scripts could communicate with just about any System 7 or later application.
I haven't done any AppleScript or MacPerl, since about Mac OS 8.0, so I don't know how things have changed in OS X. I am very seriously considering getting a G5 to replace my current workstation (a homebuilt 800 MHz PIII) in a couple of months.
I like potatoes and cabbage, preferably with some sort of meat, probably from a pig, like short ribs, ham, or tender loin.
Of course, there's always Spam!
Now, to keep this on topic, I use FreeBSD on my desktop at home and have been doing Java programming on it for two years now. I've got native JDK 1.4.1 on it, compiled from ports, and it works great!
I'm currently using FreeBSD 5.1 and plan to stick the 5.x releases in the future. I will likely switch my home web server from Red Hat Linux to FreeBSD when 5-STABLE is branched.
Now, if I could just figure out what kernel options I need to FreeBSD 5.1 to install on my laptop. Ah well, may as well have Linux machine in the house.
Having worked there, and knowing what Hank Dietz and his students are doing, I can tell you that it is different from just slapping PCs together, stringing wire between them and installing clustering software.
Dietz specializes in networking and all the wiring that you see in the photos is charted out by custom software that he's written just for this purpose.
He works in the realm of optimizing communications among the nodes to avoid network latency and so on. If you read the POVRay benchmarks, you'll notice that the author comments that several clusters' CPUs spend most of their time idle due to network latency. Dietz is researching the best ways to eliminate much of that latency so that the CPUs in the cluster can spend more of their time crunching data rather than just throwing off heat. To my knowledge, he is succeeding at this and better than most other researchers in the field.
As for what his students learned from this, I don't know exactly which students helped him on this. For KLAT2, there were several undergrad volunteers who helped with wiring and assembly, mostly from the campus Linux Users' Group. I know his grad students and research assistants are learning a lot about how clustering and network tech works, and a couple are doing their Ph.D. disserts in this very subfield of E.E.
I've come to the conclusion, after dealing with several such outbreaks in the last four years, that people are dumb. You could send out an email with a subject of "New Virus," a body that reads "If you run the attached program it will set your computer on fire, destroy your corporate network, open a gaping black hole under your chair, mail itself to everyone in your address book, post a message on USENET saying your an idiot, and finally download child porn to your computer and notify law enforcement that you're a child pornographer," and some dipshit is going to run it.
I don't know about where you live, but around here baiting is illegal. You'll lose your hunting license, get fined, and possibly go to jail for it. So, no baiting, m'kay?
I know that this is mostly off-topic, but after reading a lot of the posts on here saying that Bush will beat Dean in an election I just have to say this.
Everyone is talking like Bush actually won the election in 2000. Well, technically, he did because he got the majority of electoral college votes, after Florida was given to him when the Supreme Court basically denied yet another recount of votes.
However, the tone of discussion implies that Bush also won the general election in 2000, which he did not. Lest we forget, more people actually voted for Gore than voted for Bush. I distinctly remember the news casters going on and on about this and how this hasn't happened since President Buchanan or some such.
Think about that before you start saying that it will be a landslide for Bush in '04. Keep in mind, too, that a lot of people are unhappy with how his administration is running, or not running, the country's business.
SCO is going to burn over this, and I really do think that the owners and all C-level executives of the company are going to end up in jail. It's just too brazen a lie and scam to go unchecked. The FTC and SEC will at least have to launch a token investigation to demonstrate that they're not 100% asleep at the wheel...
Yeah, sure. Just like all the executives at Enron and Worldcom went to jail after all their illegal acounting and other shady business practices. I don't think so. Your faith in the FTC and SEC makes me laugh!
Take a good look at that photo mosaic in the article, again. If you live in the Eastern U.S., on the West Coast of the U.S., Europe, and most of the inhabited parts of Asia, then what you suggest is impossible. Light pollution is everywhere.
You want to get away from the light pollution, then move to the South American rainforests, or to Africa, or the Australian Outback.
That said, I agree with the original poster in this thread. I've been in places with much less artificial light, and after a couple days/weeks, I really noticed a difference in attitude and a feeling of naturalness about life in general. I don't have that feeling in the more urban areas that I've lived which are flooded with artificial light. I have the constant feeling of being off-balance, as if something just isn't right.
Yeah, I know anecdotal evidence proves nothing, but there it is anyway.
What's even funnier: I used to live in a neighborhood with streetlights and we got coyotes all the time. It wasn't rare to wake up in the middle of the night to the sounds of barking, baying, and yelling as someone's pet dog or cat was attacked and eaten. This wasn't out west, either. This was Lexington, KY where coyotes never used to roam, until recently.
Even where I live now, there are numerous skunks roaming the city streets, something that my father-in-law (who has lived here over 30 years) says didn't start until just a couple years ago.
Those animals are coming out of what wilderness is left, because there ain't much of it, and because they've gotten used to human being around.
> the article referring to 100% death rates of all people that get too much light would lend credence to your theory...
Gee, and here I thought that there was a 100% death rate for everybody, eventually. Man, I must have been wrong. So, I guess I need to get the exactly right amounts of light and darkness, and I'll live forever! Yay!
Yeah, I was gonna say pretty much what the first poster said, but I hate "Me, too!" posts.
So, I'm telling honestpuck, who writes some of the shittiest reviews I've ever read, to study this review. It's good, almost perfect. In fact, it would be perfect if you cut it off at the "What's in the book?" section. Well, you could leave in the Table of Contents, but that isn't necessary.
If you're thinking of writing a review for/., or for any forum for that matter, then read this review. Study it. Learn from it.
The inalienable rights are mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, and not in the Constitution. The inalienable rights mentioned are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Plea bargaining to a felony crime is the same as being convicted by a jury of a felony crime. By law, convicted felons lose certain rights in the United States of America, even after they have served their sentence. IIRC, they lose the right to keep and bear arms, they lose the right to vote, and they lose certain other rights. It is not uncommon for judges to stipulate that a felon cannot associate with certain people or to use certain types of equipment after a conviction. Generally, though, these sorts of additional restrictions have a time limit on them, like 5 years or so after release.
Being convicted of a misdemeanor will not cause you to lose these rights.
I'm not saying one way or another what I believe on the above. I'm merely stating what is the case under the law today. I leave it as the proverbial exercise for the reader to determine what my personal stance is.
Actually, may I point out that the American voters did not elect him last time. Bush won the electoral college vote largely over the mess in Florida, when a majority Republican appointed Supreme Court refused to allow yet another recount of votes.
The fact is, the majority of Americans voted for Al Gore.
This isn't the first time in America that a President was elected who didn't get the majority of popular votes, but did win in the most populous states to become President.
The problem of value is that *most* people are conditioned by society to equate value with money. There are many things in my life that have value to me but I cannot express that value in monetary terms. Most of these "things" (my family, my friends) have a value that far exceeds any quantifiable monetary sum. These are things which I hold so dear that I would not sell them at any price, and I would even give up my life to protect them.
Free Software that I use and that I have contributed to also has value to me, but I don't generally attempt to quantize that value in monetary. It has a utility value in that it helps me to accomplish tasks, it improves my understanding of software creation, and it even entertains me. So there are many levels of value in otherwise valueless software: utility, entertainment, and intellectual stimulation.
The same holds for "open content." Most of the www is still available to us at little or no charge, and though much of what may be out there is dross, there is still a great deal of entertainment, utility, and educational value to be found.
Warren Buffett has been quoted as saying that the Internet is the greatest destroyer of value to ever exist. In the strict monetary sense of value, he is correct. In the less tangible sense of value, as in what I value and what I have to gain of an intellectual and/or utilitarian nature from free and open content and code on the Internet, Mr. Buffett could not be more wrong. The Internet and technologies that can be used have the potential to greatly increase the non-monetary value of any information, and that in my opinion is a good thing.
It is time that we get beyond money as the sole measuring stick for value.
At my current position, I haven't seen this. There's only 8 of us in the office where I work now, and even I use Win2K on the desktop here in my office. (I just started last month, maybe after I get more comfortable in my position, I'll switch my desktop to GNU/Linux.) In case you're wondering, I'm basically CIO for a consortium of 35 libraries, so I pretty much get to decide what technology is used in our main office and on the network. I can also recommend what the individual libraries use, but not make them buy any particular product.
At my previous position, as a UNIX sys. admin. on a college campus, I used to see all kinds of GNU/Linux installations that we weren't told about, usually after the machine had been compromised and used as a warez or pr0n server. People would complain about their network segment being slow and sure enough there'd be a compromised box on it.
Of course, we also had a number of "official" desktop GNU/Linux installations, usually on a second desktop computer next to the prof's Windows box. Generally, they'd use GNU/Linux for their own software to do those tricky calculations where Windows just won't cut it. (It was an engineering school.) IIRC, the CS dept. all had GNU/Linux on the desktop, it was a requirement there or something.
Oh, and those unofficial GNU/Linux desktops would become official, once we scrubbed the disks and installed a more recent distro. It's amazing how many people were installing unpatched RH 6.2 on these things and just letting them sit there.
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Actually, it did make the news, just not with a lot of fanfare. They said that Nachi also some ATMs, but nobody in the general press went into a lot of details.
If you google for Nachi ATM, you'll find the first link under the sponsored link is from varlinux.org talking about this very incident.
So, we like he MPAA and its members today?
I used to do a lot of HyperTalk. I even wrotes me some XCMDs in C, baby. (Since lost all the source code.)
You didn't have to refer to the fields and cards by number all the time, you could (and should) give them names and refer to the names instead. Also, as any good programmer would do, you'd use a variable to hold the current card. This is particularly helpful when recursing a stack.
I still have my HyperCard 2.1 disks and most of the stacks I wrote all saved on quickly disintegrating floppies.
As for AppleScript, I've done some of that, too. I would say that it is very useful for automating certain things and for making drag targets. I used to have drag targets on my desktop for doing certain conversions or adding a file/application to a menu, etc. It can be used as a general purpose programming language, but it is ill-suited to that task, and for any seriously complicated scripting on my Mac, I used MacPerl. Since MacPerl does AppleEvents, my scripts could communicate with just about any System 7 or later application.
I haven't done any AppleScript or MacPerl, since about Mac OS 8.0, so I don't know how things have changed in OS X. I am very seriously considering getting a G5 to replace my current workstation (a homebuilt 800 MHz PIII) in a couple of months.
I like potatoes and cabbage, preferably with some sort of meat, probably from a pig, like short ribs, ham, or tender loin.
Of course, there's always Spam!
Now, to keep this on topic, I use FreeBSD on my desktop at home and have been doing Java programming on it for two years now. I've got native JDK 1.4.1 on it, compiled from ports, and it works great!
I'm currently using FreeBSD 5.1 and plan to stick the 5.x releases in the future. I will likely switch my home web server from Red Hat Linux to FreeBSD when 5-STABLE is branched.
Now, if I could just figure out what kernel options I need to FreeBSD 5.1 to install on my laptop. Ah well, may as well have Linux machine in the house.
Ice cream gives me gas.
/. there, buddy.
You don't speak for all of
Having worked there, and knowing what Hank Dietz and his students are doing, I can tell you that it is different from just slapping PCs together, stringing wire between them and installing clustering software.
Dietz specializes in networking and all the wiring that you see in the photos is charted out by custom software that he's written just for this purpose.
He works in the realm of optimizing communications among the nodes to avoid network latency and so on. If you read the POVRay benchmarks, you'll notice that the author comments that several clusters' CPUs spend most of their time idle due to network latency. Dietz is researching the best ways to eliminate much of that latency so that the CPUs in the cluster can spend more of their time crunching data rather than just throwing off heat. To my knowledge, he is succeeding at this and better than most other researchers in the field.
As for what his students learned from this, I don't know exactly which students helped him on this. For KLAT2, there were several undergrad volunteers who helped with wiring and assembly, mostly from the campus Linux Users' Group. I know his grad students and research assistants are learning a lot about how clustering and network tech works, and a couple are doing their Ph.D. disserts in this very subfield of E.E.
Hey! I used to work there.
Way to go Dr. Dietz!
So, mod me anyway you want, karma to burn.
I've come to the conclusion, after dealing with several such outbreaks in the last four years, that people are dumb. You could send out an email with a subject of "New Virus," a body that reads "If you run the attached program it will set your computer on fire, destroy your corporate network, open a gaping black hole under your chair, mail itself to everyone in your address book, post a message on USENET saying your an idiot, and finally download child porn to your computer and notify law enforcement that you're a child pornographer," and some dipshit is going to run it.
I don't know about where you live, but around here baiting is illegal. You'll lose your hunting license, get fined, and possibly go to jail for it. So, no baiting, m'kay?
I know that this is mostly off-topic, but after reading a lot of the posts on here saying that Bush will beat Dean in an election I just have to say this.
Everyone is talking like Bush actually won the election in 2000. Well, technically, he did because he got the majority of electoral college votes, after Florida was given to him when the Supreme Court basically denied yet another recount of votes.
However, the tone of discussion implies that Bush also won the general election in 2000, which he did not. Lest we forget, more people actually voted for Gore than voted for Bush. I distinctly remember the news casters going on and on about this and how this hasn't happened since President Buchanan or some such.
Think about that before you start saying that it will be a landslide for Bush in '04. Keep in mind, too, that a lot of people are unhappy with how his administration is running, or not running, the country's business.
Except that MySQL isn't quaaludes. MySQL is code speak for MDMA.
SCO is going to burn over this, and I really do think that the owners and all C-level executives of the company are going to end up in jail. It's just too brazen a lie and scam to go unchecked. The FTC and SEC will at least have to launch a token investigation to demonstrate that they're not 100% asleep at the wheel...
Yeah, sure. Just like all the executives at Enron and Worldcom went to jail after all their illegal acounting and other shady business practices. I don't think so. Your faith in the FTC and SEC makes me laugh!
When I programmed for the companies I worked for, I generally didn't program with what I liked, I programmed with what I was told to use by my boss.
Take a good look at that photo mosaic in the article, again. If you live in the Eastern U.S., on the West Coast of the U.S., Europe, and most of the inhabited parts of Asia, then what you suggest is impossible. Light pollution is everywhere.
You want to get away from the light pollution, then move to the South American rainforests, or to Africa, or the Australian Outback.
That said, I agree with the original poster in this thread. I've been in places with much less artificial light, and after a couple days/weeks, I really noticed a difference in attitude and a feeling of naturalness about life in general. I don't have that feeling in the more urban areas that I've lived which are flooded with artificial light. I have the constant feeling of being off-balance, as if something just isn't right.
Yeah, I know anecdotal evidence proves nothing, but there it is anyway.
What's even funnier: I used to live in a neighborhood with streetlights and we got coyotes all the time. It wasn't rare to wake up in the middle of the night to the sounds of barking, baying, and yelling as someone's pet dog or cat was attacked and eaten. This wasn't out west, either. This was Lexington, KY where coyotes never used to roam, until recently.
Even where I live now, there are numerous skunks roaming the city streets, something that my father-in-law (who has lived here over 30 years) says didn't start until just a couple years ago.
Those animals are coming out of what wilderness is left, because there ain't much of it, and because they've gotten used to human being around.
> the article referring to 100% death rates of all people that get too much light would lend credence to your theory...
Gee, and here I thought that there was a 100% death rate for everybody, eventually. Man, I must have been wrong. So, I guess I need to get the exactly right amounts of light and darkness, and I'll live forever! Yay!
Don't report the problem. Just be sure to give yourself straight As or whatever the equivalent is at your location.
Yeah, I was gonna say pretty much what the first poster said, but I hate "Me, too!" posts.
/., or for any forum for that matter, then read this review. Study it. Learn from it.
So, I'm telling honestpuck, who writes some of the shittiest reviews I've ever read, to study this review. It's good, almost perfect. In fact, it would be perfect if you cut it off at the "What's in the book?" section. Well, you could leave in the Table of Contents, but that isn't necessary.
If you're thinking of writing a review for
How 'bout just shoplifting the CD?
:-) - for the sarcasm impaired.
You get the music for free and you get to hurt the store owner who is pimping for the RIAA!
The inalienable rights are mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, and not in the Constitution. The inalienable rights mentioned are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Plea bargaining to a felony crime is the same as being convicted by a jury of a felony crime. By law, convicted felons lose certain rights in the United States of America, even after they have served their sentence. IIRC, they lose the right to keep and bear arms, they lose the right to vote, and they lose certain other rights. It is not uncommon for judges to stipulate that a felon cannot associate with certain people or to use certain types of equipment after a conviction. Generally, though, these sorts of additional restrictions have a time limit on them, like 5 years or so after release.
Being convicted of a misdemeanor will not cause you to lose these rights.
I'm not saying one way or another what I believe on the above. I'm merely stating what is the case under the law today. I leave it as the proverbial exercise for the reader to determine what my personal stance is.
Actually, may I point out that the American voters did not elect him last time. Bush won the electoral college vote largely over the mess in Florida, when a majority Republican appointed Supreme Court refused to allow yet another recount of votes.
The fact is, the majority of Americans voted for Al Gore.
This isn't the first time in America that a President was elected who didn't get the majority of popular votes, but did win in the most populous states to become President.
Class Action.
Anybody and everybody associated with GNU/Linux and other free software operating systems should jump on board.
You either don't have it, or you PAY A BIG WAD OF MONEY for it.
The problem of value is that *most* people are conditioned by society to equate value with money. There are many things in my life that have value to me but I cannot express that value in monetary terms. Most of these "things" (my family, my friends) have a value that far exceeds any quantifiable monetary sum. These are things which I hold so dear that I would not sell them at any price, and I would even give up my life to protect them.
Free Software that I use and that I have contributed to also has value to me, but I don't generally attempt to quantize that value in monetary. It has a utility value in that it helps me to accomplish tasks, it improves my understanding of software creation, and it even entertains me. So there are many levels of value in otherwise valueless software: utility, entertainment, and intellectual stimulation.
The same holds for "open content." Most of the www is still available to us at little or no charge, and though much of what may be out there is dross, there is still a great deal of entertainment, utility, and educational value to be found.
Warren Buffett has been quoted as saying that the Internet is the greatest destroyer of value to ever exist. In the strict monetary sense of value, he is correct. In the less tangible sense of value, as in what I value and what I have to gain of an intellectual and/or utilitarian nature from free and open content and code on the Internet, Mr. Buffett could not be more wrong. The Internet and technologies that can be used have the potential to greatly increase the non-monetary value of any information, and that in my opinion is a good thing.
It is time that we get beyond money as the sole measuring stick for value.
At my current position, I haven't seen this. There's only 8 of us in the office where I work now, and even I use Win2K on the desktop here in my office. (I just started last month, maybe after I get more comfortable in my position, I'll switch my desktop to GNU/Linux.) In case you're wondering, I'm basically CIO for a consortium of 35 libraries, so I pretty much get to decide what technology is used in our main office and on the network. I can also recommend what the individual libraries use, but not make them buy any particular product.
At my previous position, as a UNIX sys. admin. on a college campus, I used to see all kinds of GNU/Linux installations that we weren't told about, usually after the machine had been compromised and used as a warez or pr0n server. People would complain about their network segment being slow and sure enough there'd be a compromised box on it.
Of course, we also had a number of "official" desktop GNU/Linux installations, usually on a second desktop computer next to the prof's Windows box. Generally, they'd use GNU/Linux for their own software to do those tricky calculations where Windows just won't cut it. (It was an engineering school.) IIRC, the CS dept. all had GNU/Linux on the desktop, it was a requirement there or something.
Oh, and those unofficial GNU/Linux desktops would become official, once we scrubbed the disks and installed a more recent distro. It's amazing how many people were installing unpatched RH 6.2 on these things and just letting them sit there.