This will be the last one you run? This looks like a hardware product to me. Why does that belong on Freshmeat.net? Why isn't this nerdswerthy news? I'm really bewildered by what does and doesn't make Slashdot standard for which articles are appropriate. I *want* to hear about these type of things. I'll go to Freshmeat.net when I want a particular piece of oss software.
Any distro that has a mascot named Geeko, has got to do some introsepection and realize that its not ready for the mass-moron, er mass-market.
If we're really not ready for the desktop market yet, well, when we "get there" in the media's eyes we are really going to kick ass. They'll realize how nice it is to be able to work without crashes and losing work.
If you where too lazy to read the questions and answers all the way through you'll have missed this key statement:
In the old days, an operating system was designed to optimize the utilization of the computer's resources. In the future, its main goal will be to optimize the user's time.
Appliance, software, and web designers need to write J.K.'s qoute down and put it up on their monitor, their fridge, and their bathroom mirror. Write it on your hands. Do something, but keep this in mind all the time whenver taking useability issues in hand.
If somebody has a wood chopping axe, its legal. If they use it to attack someone and bury the axe blade in someone else's back, its a crime, and the axe become a crime tool/weapon.
Read closely and you may not feel so sorry for them. They used L0phtCrack as a tool to commit a crime, rather than to secure their own networks.
L0phtCrack is a legit tool and is legal, HOWEVER, should you use that tool, it could be called a tool to commit a crime. If he had done a physical entry they would have called his power tools, should they have been used to break in, as theft tools. Its a way to add on years (or the threat of) to their possible sentance. Somehow this is supposed to deter other criminals. Don't ask me if it works or not. I don't have a clue.
Why only 15 stories in a day? Why not 20? There are a lot of good stories that must get passed up. Instead we have duplicate/disapearing stories, with some real crap getting front page, while other computer news gets shelved or not published at all.
I know, I just critized Slashdot. I'm about to loose some karma points. Oh well. But my question still stands, why not a few more stories each day?
I nearly wet my plants when I saw this article. SMP!! I thought it may have been a typo. Seeing as how only like 5 of us in all of the Slashdot readership will see this, I thought I could share my excitement without being moderated or something.
Its in progress, as the note says, so we've got to wait a little longer. Now I have a 'good' excuse to get a dual processor box!
While your around, check out the OpenBSD T-shirts and stuff:
Your high-pitched objections to the legitimate actions of a true business innovator grate harshly against my very soul.
I usually just grate cheese, but if we rub you the wrong way so much, why bother to read it? Its like liberals listening to Rush L. on the radio. They do it just to get upset.
What I find rather bold of O'reilly is that they're speaking out agains a BIG seller of O'reilly books. It looks like he's willing to risk their ire, so O'reilly has guts and morals. I'm not boycotting Amazon myself, although I don't agree with their patent shenanegans. 1-click my ass. O'Reilly has guts, and I have more respect for their line of books more than ever now.
What type of education did you (and others )have to receive to become a useability expert? Basically whats the best route to get a career in human-computer factors?
qouting Ace's article, pg.2: Since they also wanted to get 1000+ CPUs in a single system, they also had to design the on-chip memory system and interfaces to be able to handle this. When you have a multi-processor system, you need to keep the data coherent in all caches (having the same data at the same time, or else you get bad results) one way or another, and this becomes increasingly difficult as more CPUs are added.
I guess there are alot of issues which are specific to Sun's hardware, so mabye my thought of learning from Sun's SMP code was a moot point. Moot is a fun word to say. Moot. Almost like saying Meept.
Maybe after working 60+ hours a week he's just to tired and wants to talk to his wife and play with his kids. I have feeling that if he really thought "it" was such a wonderful and desperately needed widget he'd do it. Not all of us can devote are free time to OSS. We have other commitments. Thats why we're thankful for others who can, or for others who make it their main goal.
"Film studios say zoning is designed to minimise piracy. But Ms Cross said it was 'against the spirit of free competition and a potential trade barrier. We'll fight so the prices come down.'"
I have to agree with Cross. The regional codes are more about protecting their "right" to profit gouge rather than to prevent piracy.
We can defeat their regional codes. We can defeat their weak encryption schemes.
Why don't they learn their lesson and just sell us our movies in a sensible way?
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Having worked with large format transparencies, negatives, photography, scanning, and photoshop for 8 hrs a day at my last job, I can tell you that a photograph -may- not always represent the "true reality" that it was intended to capture.
Photographers spend time in the dark room or on Photoshop making corrections, trying to get their photograph to represent what it did look like, the lights, lighting, contrast, etc. So if its there intent to capture "reality" it takes an awful lot of work and effort. Its not just something thats instantly caputured on film perfectly.
Also the very talented photographers have alot of imput as to the final feeling the photograph will protray as to the "reality" its trying to capture. A small example being portrait photos for business execs. If the exec pissed off our photographer he purposely get the shot so that the colors, contrast, etc were perfect, but made the exec look short, old, etc, just by using camera angles. The exec looked fine in real life at those angles, but not so hot on silver-hylide. The photograph itself looked beautiful, but the exec looked like an ass.
There are prominent BSD developers who actively encourage people to develop for Linux first, as there is a large test-bed. Linux software can run on BSD fine, and if the developers like they can then go back after the testing and redevelop specifically for BSD.
There's nothing -horribly- wrong with this. Most of the BSD groups like having a small really tight OS. Other cool software can be added after the main BSD install.
A big reason why they do this, is Linux is really popular, and the particular developers we're talking about probably wouldn't bother to dev. software specifically for BSD first.
The computers on the hubble have to be able to withstand some radiation, so they "harden" and test computers for awhile, which means older computers are used. The stray radiation can cause problems with memory, etc. Laptops currently used on the shuttle have to reboot everynow and then when they get funky, but you'll could always blame that on other things besides the radiation.
I work at UC Santa Barbara. For are you little orangutans out there saying the FBI is wasting its time trolling around here at UCSB, well go read the news a little more carefully. The intruder did a sloppy job and didn't clean up on his way out; therefore there may be information worth investigating.
Kevin's qouted in the CNN article: "Schmidt said the intruder was 'sloppy' in his work and failed to destroy all the logs monitoring activity on the server. "There wasn't a great effort to hide their presence.."
Scroll down to the part that says "Method of attack at UCSB."
It was really odd to see cameras and suits out and about though.
I use Linux and OpenBSD. As a matter of fact I just upgraded to OpenBSD 2.6. I don't think there's any need to blast Linux's dev style or what not, though. There's a need for both, and plenty of room for all.
Whats the point of yelling at eachother? I don't think "The BSD developers have had different motivations" than Linux developers. We all just want software that doesn't suck, right?
Its not easy getting a fully packaged/ready to go neurotransmitter into the brain just by swallowing a pill. The blood-brain barrier keeps most stuff like that out. You can't give them a dopamine pill easily. You can try L-dopa, building blocks though.
Want to see something even more humorous than Time-Warner reporting on AOL? Turn off your cookies (so it prompts you if you'll accept them) and then go to the article on the lawsuit and watch how many prompts you get. Its sickingly funny. Almost.
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Maybe it was a fluke or a bug of some kind, but I ended up killing Diablo with a 2x4 with a nail in it.
You had to use a weapon? You wussy! I just kicked Diablo to death as an archer. You just drop all your weapons and attack him. Kicked 'em to death.
Besides the video, will the game be any different for the 'special' version? Any extra goodies, maybe some 'Easter eggs' or cheats?
This will be the last one you run? This looks like a hardware product to me. Why does that belong on Freshmeat.net?
Why isn't this nerdswerthy news? I'm really bewildered by what does and doesn't make Slashdot standard for which articles are appropriate.
I *want* to hear about these type of things. I'll go to Freshmeat.net when I want a particular piece of oss software.
Any distro that has a mascot named Geeko, has got to do some introsepection and realize that its not ready for the mass-moron, er mass-market.
If we're really not ready for the desktop market yet, well, when we "get there" in the media's eyes we are really going to kick ass. They'll realize how nice it is to be able to work without crashes and losing work.
If you where too lazy to read the questions and answers all the way through you'll have missed this key statement:
In the old days, an operating system was designed to optimize the utilization of the computer's resources. In the future, its main goal will be to optimize the user's time.
Appliance, software, and web designers need to write J.K.'s qoute down and put it up on their monitor, their fridge, and their bathroom mirror. Write it on your hands. Do something, but keep this in mind all the time whenver taking useability issues in hand.
One more analogy... Even more 'bluntly'...
If somebody has a wood chopping axe, its legal. If they use it to attack someone and bury the axe blade in someone else's back, its a crime, and the axe become a crime tool/weapon.
Read closely and you may not feel so sorry for them. They used L0phtCrack as a tool to commit a crime, rather than to secure their own networks.
L0phtCrack is a legit tool and is legal, HOWEVER, should you use that tool, it could be called a tool to commit a crime. If he had done a physical entry they would have called his power tools, should they have been used to break in, as theft tools. Its a way to add on years (or the threat of) to their possible sentance. Somehow this is supposed to deter other criminals. Don't ask me if it works or not. I don't have a clue.
On the subject of impersonators Ender...
What do you do when you find out that I've been using that name on Slashdot for a long time?
Why only 15 stories in a day? Why not 20? There are a lot of good stories that must get passed up. Instead we have duplicate/disapearing stories, with some real crap getting front page, while other computer news gets shelved or not published at all.
I know, I just critized Slashdot. I'm about to loose some karma points. Oh well. But my question still stands, why not a few more stories each day?
Its in progress, as the note says, so we've got to wait a little longer. Now I have a 'good' excuse to get a dual processor box!
While your around, check out the OpenBSD T-shirts and stuff:
Script Kittie
Other T-shirts
and the OpenBSD 2.6 CD-ROM
Your high-pitched objections to the legitimate actions of a true business innovator grate harshly against my very soul.
I usually just grate cheese, but if we rub you the wrong way so much, why bother to read it? Its like liberals listening to Rush L. on the radio. They do it just to get upset.
What I find rather bold of O'reilly is that they're speaking out agains a BIG seller of O'reilly books. It looks like he's willing to risk their ire, so O'reilly has guts and morals. I'm not boycotting Amazon myself, although I don't agree with their patent shenanegans. 1-click my ass. O'Reilly has guts, and I have more respect for their line of books more than ever now.
What type of education did you (and others )have to receive to become a useability expert? Basically whats the best route to get a career in human-computer factors?
qouting Ace's article, pg.2: Since they also wanted to get 1000+ CPUs in a single system, they also had to design the on-chip memory system and interfaces to be able to handle this. When you have a multi-processor system, you need to keep the data coherent in all caches (having the same data at the same time, or else you get bad results) one way or another, and this becomes increasingly difficult as more CPUs are added.
I guess there are alot of issues which are specific to Sun's hardware, so mabye my thought of learning from Sun's SMP code was a moot point. Moot is a fun word to say. Moot. Almost like saying Meept.
Does Sun "community source" the code to parts allowing this mass use off SMP CPUs?
Can we "learn" something from their code and (hehe) "clean lab it" into the Linux kernel or into the BSDs? What are the legal ramifications?
Maybe after working 60+ hours a week he's just to tired and wants to talk to his wife and play with his kids. I have feeling that if he really thought "it" was such a wonderful and desperately needed widget he'd do it. Not all of us can devote are free time to OSS. We have other commitments. Thats why we're thankful for others who can, or for others who make it their main goal.
sig 11: Believe me - there is no port.
sig 11's sig: question authority..
Oh, I belive you Mr. 11! I do! No wait, ummmm. Question authority? Umm. Grog confused.
Hey! I'm offended that your offended about how he's offended!
Can someone inform me what the trouble is between Debian and Corel? I have no clue.
On the subject of the rant:
Can Slashdot et. al post more stories/articles in a day? I just want to be able to read more interesting stuff.
"Film studios say zoning is designed to minimise piracy. But Ms Cross said it was 'against the spirit of free competition and a potential trade barrier. We'll fight so the prices come down.'"
I have to agree with Cross. The regional codes are more about protecting their "right" to profit gouge rather than to prevent piracy.
We can defeat their regional codes.
We can defeat their weak encryption schemes.
Why don't they learn their lesson and just sell us our movies in a sensible way?
Having worked with large format transparencies, negatives, photography, scanning, and photoshop for 8 hrs a day at my last job, I can tell you that a photograph -may- not always represent the "true reality" that it was intended to capture.
Photographers spend time in the dark room or on Photoshop making corrections, trying to get their photograph to represent what it did look like, the lights, lighting, contrast, etc. So if its there intent to capture "reality" it takes an awful lot of work and effort. Its not just something thats instantly caputured on film perfectly.
Also the very talented photographers have alot of imput as to the final feeling the photograph will protray as to the "reality" its trying to capture. A small example being portrait photos for business execs. If the exec pissed off our photographer he purposely get the shot so that the colors, contrast, etc were perfect, but made the exec look short, old, etc, just by using camera angles. The exec looked fine in real life at those angles, but not so hot on silver-hylide. The photograph itself looked beautiful, but the exec looked like an ass.
There are prominent BSD developers who actively encourage people to develop for Linux first, as there is a large test-bed. Linux software can run on BSD fine, and if the developers like they can then go back after the testing and redevelop specifically for BSD.
There's nothing -horribly- wrong with this. Most of the BSD groups like having a small really tight OS. Other cool software can be added after the main BSD install.
A big reason why they do this, is Linux is really popular, and the particular developers we're talking about probably wouldn't bother to dev. software specifically for BSD first.
The computers on the hubble have to be able to withstand some radiation, so they "harden" and test computers for awhile, which means older computers are used. The stray radiation can cause problems with memory, etc.
Laptops currently used on the shuttle have to reboot everynow and then when they get funky, but you'll could always blame that on other things besides the radiation.
I work at UC Santa Barbara. For are you little orangutans out there saying the FBI is wasting its time trolling around here at UCSB, well go read the news a little more carefully. The intruder did a sloppy job and didn't clean up on his way out; therefore there may be information worth investigating.
Kevin's qouted in the CNN article:
"Schmidt said the intruder was 'sloppy' in his work and failed to destroy all the logs monitoring activity on the server. "There wasn't a great effort to hide their presence.."
Scroll down to the part that says "Method of attack at UCSB."
It was really odd to see cameras and suits out and about though.
I use Linux and OpenBSD. As a matter of fact I just upgraded to OpenBSD 2.6. I don't think there's any need to blast Linux's dev style or what not, though. There's a need for both, and plenty of room for all.
Whats the point of yelling at eachother?
I don't think "The BSD developers have had different motivations" than Linux developers. We all just want software that doesn't suck, right?
http://www.openbsd.org/
Check out this cool OpenBSD T-shirt, a shirt any Linux user would be proud to wear.
Its not easy getting a fully packaged/ready to go neurotransmitter into the brain just by swallowing a pill. The blood-brain barrier keeps most stuff like that out. You can't give them a dopamine pill easily. You can try L-dopa, building blocks though.
Want to see something even more humorous than Time-Warner reporting on AOL? Turn off your cookies (so it prompts you if you'll accept them) and then go to the article on the lawsuit and watch how many prompts you get. Its sickingly funny. Almost.