... cause we all know the world's one, big straight, clean road! Especially in winter.. oh yea baby!
So you're comparing a suped-up Camaro SS with a stock WRX?! Stock 2001 Camaro SS does 0-60 in 5.5. Stock NON-STi WRX does it in 5.4. Stock STi does it in 4.3. And if you're somewhere other than long, flat roads where you don't have to steer, bring on the knuckle-draggers any day--suped up or not.
Ha ha.. don't make me laugh.
If you really want to talk about suping up, let's talk about a replacement turbocharger for the WRX.. and then let's compare engine reliability and performance of these two, much more "evenly" matched 0-60, beastly machines, mmkay?
Re:Breaking backward compatibility?
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I'm talking about 3rd party binaries, built to target a specific OpenBSD version, breaking when the next version of OpenBSD becomes available. I'm NOT talking about in-place binary upgrades of the system.
NetBSD has Kernel options "COMPAT_16" or "COMPAT_15" so the kernel itself will support binaries which are targetted at older releases and thus can run software from (decades?) ago without much more than installing the older libraries it was linked against.
OpenBSD, as I recall, has no such functionality to speak of. Or does it now?
(English.. do you speak it?)
... how about load balancing? CARP do that yet?
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I understand there's some kind of arpbalance program which allows two machines to answer to the same arp request, and by doing so the hope is that some clients will see one arp, and some clients the other;
However, I was wondering if there's anything whereby the firewalls themselves load balance outgoing connections?
For those of us who have more than one internet link into their home, and who currently have to manually switch between one route and the other, this kind of functionality would be an absolute godsend.:)
Anyway, congrats to the OpenBSD team, it's always good to see another BSD that doesn't buy into the "How many times can we bump the version to make it look good to the users" game.
Does OpenBSD 3.5 break backward compatibility with all previous releases, like every other OpenBSD release does?
I've always wondered if they did this on purpose or not.. Keeping up with the version game (and trying to support old users who can't afford the time and effort to upgrade) is somewhat difficult.
Uh.. because with one you can boot to a clean floppy and be assured that a newly-wiped system is completely clean, but there might be no way to extract it from the CPU core itself?
The people in that other Ask Slashdot took the employee, safe route. There was one business degree respondent who was working a help desk. Many of them had "what level salary to ask for" down to a science.
These people are people who will never be anything more than helpdesk or Cobol-cubicle material, especially when their tone suggests they believe they're living "the good life." How about that fellow who thought he was eating $1000/mo on $150 of onions, cheap bread, meat sauce, and melted-down cubes of chocolate!
There is a reason those people can't find better jobs: they expect nothing better, and strive for nothing better, because they're all unwilling to take any risk and make an honest go of opportunity.
Be careful their bitterness doesn't sway your opinion of what to expect in your future career--because you'll get NO MORE THAN YOU EXPECT. You'll NEVER MAKE ANY MORE THAN YOU EXPECT TO MAKE.
You may make less, but you'll *NEVER* make more.
So here's my advice: do what you love. People recognize other people who share a passion, or who are passionate about what they do. It's inspiring to have people like that around.
Consider--would you really want to work around someone who bitches all the time that the "best" jobs are stolen by overseas low-paid workers? How depressing? Would you want to work next to someone who had no ambition, no aspirations, and no willingness to take even the modicum of risk necessary to build and sell something novel on their own?
Makes me sad to see someone claiming that $20/hr is worth making a career out of. But, ah well. I suppose most people can't see past their immediate surroundings.
Slow CPU, Minimal RAM, slow drives..
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You can make it work so slowly that it turns out to be $1/email.
Stick it to them! Dig up your old 386's and get them running it.
Or you can intercept outgoing emails as they're sent and simply drop them on the floor.
1. U.S. authors to be under a harsher method of obtaining real copyright than foreigners (who would see copyright in the U.S. automatically via the Berne convention.)
2. Most currently-protected works to fall into the public domain.
One of them can screw around with your current mental state in a very personal way, the other is a stimulant to which brief exposure is mostly harmless.
Pot's still illegal. Low-weight possession is just what's going to be *decriminalized*. IE: You won't have a criminal record after being caught with small amounts.
Calligraphy can be tremendously rewarding. Usually simple letters of the alphabet aren't considered works of art, but write them in calligraphy and suddenly everyone wants to hang the quips and quotes you scribble, all over their homes!
This will teach you the practice and patience and dexterity you need to improve your normal handwriting also.
It's not hard, it just takes endless practice.
And, even though some of those books are for children, they do have the outlined strokes you need to cleanly (and slowly) learn the forms.
So.. uh.. Lotus esprit kits, and all those other unauthorized kit cars out there with everything but the actual emblem of the vehicle types themselves? What about them? Are they infringing on the designers? Why aren't they being sued into the dirt? Because people want the service, parts, and quality of the original, that's why. If I make a copy and run off with it, I'm damn well not going to get any service or warranty with my copy, so...?
"It is the first I've heard of anyone attempting that," said EFF legal director Cindy Cohn. "I guess that is a silver lining of the fact that the RIAA is suing so many people, that there are a lot of lawyers trying to figure out ways to protect folks."... the above quote is from the article--right at the end. Unfortunately this racketeering counter-suit doesn't work when the people being sued are doing the illegal/infringing activities.
How do I know? DirecTV has been doing the same thing for far, far longer, someone counter-sued them for racketeering, and the suit was dismissed. If I'm not mistaken, it was even discussed here on Slashdot.
Anyway, the alleged activities these people are engaged in are illegal in the U.S. (but not in Canada!) so if it's proven they did them, then it's proven.
Think of the consequences of a racketeering conviction! A company would no longer be able to sue large masses of people who were infringing their intellectual property! Ack, the chaos that would ensue there!
... err.. this isn't to say you should lie. But a 5-week job where you didn't get anything done isn't much of a "plus." In hiring (in my past) I would be more impressed with someone who is quite comfortable surviving on their own for a while, since to me it shows that person had the forethought to sock some money or savings away and has some padding if things happened to go sour for a while.
The thing is, that if there's even a twinge of desperation in the interviewee's voice, other people hiring take that as a sign of weakness. People with nothing to lose and on the edge of starvation are far more likely to be dishonest on their resumes than someone who's well-fed and can look after themselves whether I give them a job or not.
And all the advice on here to "lie!" is a little harsh. Slashdot isn't known for its professional advice, as I'm sure you know by now. Lying outright doesn't look well on you if afterwards it's shown (explicitly?) that you aren't capable of what you said you were capable of.
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... cause we all know the world's one, big straight, clean road! Especially in winter.. oh yea baby!
So you're comparing a suped-up Camaro SS with a stock WRX?! Stock 2001 Camaro SS does 0-60 in 5.5. Stock NON-STi WRX does it in 5.4. Stock STi does it in 4.3. And if you're somewhere other than long, flat roads where you don't have to steer, bring on the knuckle-draggers any day--suped up or not.
Ha ha.. don't make me laugh.
If you really want to talk about suping up, let's talk about a replacement turbocharger for the WRX.. and then let's compare engine reliability and performance of these two, much more "evenly" matched 0-60, beastly machines, mmkay?
I'm talking about 3rd party binaries, built to target a specific OpenBSD version, breaking when the next version of OpenBSD becomes available. I'm NOT talking about in-place binary upgrades of the system.
NetBSD has Kernel options "COMPAT_16" or "COMPAT_15" so the kernel itself will support binaries which are targetted at older releases and thus can run software from (decades?) ago without much more than installing the older libraries it was linked against.
OpenBSD, as I recall, has no such functionality to speak of. Or does it now?
(English.. do you speak it?)
I understand there's some kind of arpbalance program which allows two machines to answer to the same arp request, and by doing so the hope is that some clients will see one arp, and some clients the other;
:)
However, I was wondering if there's anything whereby the firewalls themselves load balance outgoing connections?
For those of us who have more than one internet link into their home, and who currently have to manually switch between one route and the other, this kind of functionality would be an absolute godsend.
Anyway, congrats to the OpenBSD team, it's always good to see another BSD that doesn't buy into the "How many times can we bump the version to make it look good to the users" game.
Does OpenBSD 3.5 break backward compatibility with all previous releases, like every other OpenBSD release does?
I've always wondered if they did this on purpose or not.. Keeping up with the version game (and trying to support old users who can't afford the time and effort to upgrade) is somewhat difficult.
Uh.. because with one you can boot to a clean floppy and be assured that a newly-wiped system is completely clean, but there might be no way to extract it from the CPU core itself?
The people in that other Ask Slashdot took the employee, safe route. There was one business degree respondent who was working a help desk. Many of them had "what level salary to ask for" down to a science.
These people are people who will never be anything more than helpdesk or Cobol-cubicle material, especially when their tone suggests they believe they're living "the good life." How about that fellow who thought he was eating $1000/mo on $150 of onions, cheap bread, meat sauce, and melted-down cubes of chocolate!
There is a reason those people can't find better jobs: they expect nothing better, and strive for nothing better, because they're all unwilling to take any risk and make an honest go of opportunity.
Be careful their bitterness doesn't sway your opinion of what to expect in your future career--because you'll get NO MORE THAN YOU EXPECT. You'll NEVER MAKE ANY MORE THAN YOU EXPECT TO MAKE.
You may make less, but you'll *NEVER* make more.
So here's my advice: do what you love. People recognize other people who share a passion, or who are passionate about what they do. It's inspiring to have people like that around.
Consider--would you really want to work around someone who bitches all the time that the "best" jobs are stolen by overseas low-paid workers? How depressing? Would you want to work next to someone who had no ambition, no aspirations, and no willingness to take even the modicum of risk necessary to build and sell something novel on their own?
Makes me sad to see someone claiming that $20/hr is worth making a career out of. But, ah well. I suppose most people can't see past their immediate surroundings.
You can make it work so slowly that it turns out to be $1/email.
Stick it to them! Dig up your old 386's and get them running it.
Or you can intercept outgoing emails as they're sent and simply drop them on the floor.
Actually if you're doing Open Source development you can have unlimited users and clients. FreeBSD uses it internally for example.
In a Canadian one. Personal use is now a guaranteed, court-recognised right in Canada. If you don't like it, go live somewhere else.
Does this ruling mean that personal-use copies of software is also legal to share in a P2P-connected folder?
Eat it CRIA!
Glad to see Canadians, in this one small space at least, are getting justice for once!
WSI!
Why do you shorten a term to an abbreviation and then never use the abbreviation again?
:)
It's quite annoying.
So, the plaintiffs are asking for:
1. U.S. authors to be under a harsher method of obtaining real copyright than foreigners (who would see copyright in the U.S. automatically via the Berne convention.)
2. Most currently-protected works to fall into the public domain.
Whoah. Good luck with that one, guys.
Ia, ia! Cthulhu fhtaghn!
One of them can screw around with your current mental state in a very personal way, the other is a stimulant to which brief exposure is mostly harmless.
No comparison.
Yea right, like that'll happen. What planet are you smoking the bad ganja on?
The day I have to put up with potheads blowing smoke in my face on my way down mainstreet will be a sad day indeed.
It'll never get to that point though, because it'll never be legalised more than it is anywhere else in the world.
Pot's still illegal. Low-weight possession is just what's going to be *decriminalized*. IE: You won't have a criminal record after being caught with small amounts.
Everything about it's still illegal, though.
I for one welcome our new Mi-Go masters!
...and learn to slow your handwriting down.
Calligraphy can be tremendously rewarding. Usually simple letters of the alphabet aren't considered works of art, but write them in calligraphy and suddenly everyone wants to hang the quips and quotes you scribble, all over their homes!
This will teach you the practice and patience and dexterity you need to improve your normal handwriting also.
It's not hard, it just takes endless practice.
And, even though some of those books are for children, they do have the outlined strokes you need to cleanly (and slowly) learn the forms.
I turned it down because I don't really have a decent, native-compilable version of Java for my non-Linux desktop!
This could be *so* big..! PLEASE SUN DO THE RIGHT THING!
So.. uh.. Lotus esprit kits, and all those other unauthorized kit cars out there with everything but the actual emblem of the vehicle types themselves? What about them? Are they infringing on the designers? Why aren't they being sued into the dirt? Because people want the service, parts, and quality of the original, that's why. If I make a copy and run off with it, I'm damn well not going to get any service or warranty with my copy, so...?
"It is the first I've heard of anyone attempting that," said EFF legal director Cindy Cohn. "I guess that is a silver lining of the fact that the RIAA is suing so many people, that there are a lot of lawyers trying to figure out ways to protect folks." ... the above quote is from the article--right at the end. Unfortunately this racketeering counter-suit doesn't work when the people being sued are doing the illegal/infringing activities.
How do I know? DirecTV has been doing the same thing for far, far longer, someone counter-sued them for racketeering, and the suit was dismissed. If I'm not mistaken, it was even discussed here on Slashdot.
Anyway, the alleged activities these people are engaged in are illegal in the U.S. (but not in Canada!) so if it's proven they did them, then it's proven.
Think of the consequences of a racketeering conviction! A company would no longer be able to sue large masses of people who were infringing their intellectual property! Ack, the chaos that would ensue there!
... err.. this isn't to say you should lie. But a 5-week job where you didn't get anything done isn't much of a "plus." In hiring (in my past) I would be more impressed with someone who is quite comfortable surviving on their own for a while, since to me it shows that person had the forethought to sock some money or savings away and has some padding if things happened to go sour for a while.
The thing is, that if there's even a twinge of desperation in the interviewee's voice, other people hiring take that as a sign of weakness. People with nothing to lose and on the edge of starvation are far more likely to be dishonest on their resumes than someone who's well-fed and can look after themselves whether I give them a job or not.
And all the advice on here to "lie!" is a little harsh. Slashdot isn't known for its professional advice, as I'm sure you know by now. Lying outright doesn't look well on you if afterwards it's shown (explicitly?) that you aren't capable of what you said you were capable of.
Don't waste your time--it's not even valuable experience if you only lasted there for a few weeks.
Leave it off the resume, and tell them you moved out to California because you thought there were better job prospects out there.