Fixed it for you. I'm a noob taking a software engineering class at a community college.
Really.
We had a consultant come in for show-and-tell and he made some very good points, but he told us to stay away from open source because(shortened version) if we wanted to be well-known in the open source world then we'd have to slog it out full-time, fighting amongst other egos working for free just trying to get our names known.
No. Trying to get your WORK known. I don't see that much fighting amongst egos either. There's much less office politics involved with open source. If your work is of good quality it'll be accepted.
However, if you're a consultant and gotta talk your way through, open source is DEADLY to your business because all the sudden you've got to SHOW CODE instead of a "working prototype" and a big mouth full of worthless marketing buzz.
But he was wearing a suit and a tie so he's gotta be right.
"what's going to motivate them to follow standards?"
Being left behind.
I actually got that feeling too. More and more businesses see value in Linux, especially in these harsh economic times. They're taking efforts to make it suit their needs. The beauty of the whole open source environment is that everyone benefits. Really, even while a lot of people were sarcastic about linux on the desktop and such, I've been amazed by the growth of open source development in the past few years.
And it looks like that again there'll be more development next year than there was past year, with important hardware companies like Asus, Intel and HP getting more and more involved with linux. I'm interested to see what HP's gonna do with linux (besides making it slow;) ). I've used hpux in the 90's... At first they had vue, later cde. Neither were bad for the time, though Motiff's really had its time;p
Actually, I was going to look at the hardware vendor list that Nelson Russel used to keep but now it says:
Linux-supported Hardware
For quite some time, I used to list hardware companies which was supported by Linux in two senses: 1) their tech support people wouldn't quail at being asked about Linux, and 2) they advertised Linux support in a national magazine. There are now so many such firms that I can't keep up. I'm declaring victory and going home.
I have the gut feeling of getting to the point where we're even. Even if development wouldn't grow anymore, Microsoft's gonna bite the dust!
My guess is that that is mostly caused by the fact that MacOS is entirely configured for the specific hardware it's running on,
Hmm.. I took a hard drive out of a MacBook laptop and stuck it (with Firewire) to an iMac of a different generation (both Intel processors however) and booted no problem - I would assume that HW config is somewhat different between the machines.
Nod agreed. Did you boot from the harddisk you connected over firewire tho, or did you just use it as secondary disk?
Also, I personally don't have any macs... but I s'pose you could look at the hardware configurations to see what's really different? As long as the interface doesn't change, two different versions of hardware can use the same device driver. This does happen a lot.
You'd think that even though there are so many more variations of Windows systems that the OS would be optimized for the specific HW it is installed on - "m saying this because of Windows licensing that tends to get upset when you change the configuration of the PC - maybe my perception is wrong, but I think you can't take a bootable disk from one PC to another and boot it?
The windows licensing getting upset about hardware configurations has nothing to do with configuring windows for the hardware. It's called Windows Genuine Advantage and is there to lock your copy of windows down to your hardware. They want you to buy another copy of windows instead of copying what you already have. You know, if they want to give you a (virtual) advantage when you buy a copy of windows they've got to come up with a system to harm those who supposedly dont;)
Anyhow, in the past I've had pc's crap out when I just stuck a hd from an old pc into a new one. Windows *does* of course configure to your hardware, knows which drivers to load and so on, but it doesn't stop probing for it. They call it a feature. If you install a new graphics card it detects it and prompts for a cd with drivers. Nice.
However, can I please have an icon to click to do the hardware detect the one in a thousand boots that I do actually have new hardware? I mean, I won't even waste time argueing those smart guys in Redmond, I *am* stupid, but I don't actually need to be smart to remember that I've installed some piece of hardware 10 seconds before I boot the machine, right?
Oh look, that icon has been there in the configuration panel for over 12 years! So really all windows needs to do is stop the automatic probing at boot... and let me use this icon for once...
Yeah man. Even worse. I read the title and thought, 'Oh finally!'. Then I read that the goal is to make the system boot time somewhere from 15 to 30 seconds:/ What kind of ambition is that for cryin out loud!? If linux can detect all hardware and be ready (including the desktop!) by itself in 5 seconds, surely we could make the entire pc boot in 10?
Would it really be so hard to just make an option in the BIOS to detect now, and save hardware detection information? So instead of detecting it every damn boot for years and years on, detecting all the same hardware again and again and again, you could just have it detect it once, save it, and it just won't probe for hardware at boot anymore? I'm not really into bioses, but I'd guess some 64kb flash would be *plenty* for that purpose...? Woohoo my future new motherboard just increased in price by a dime... but instant boot at hand!
All you'd need to do is rescan and save when you change the hardware configuration. Tho most probably you wouldn't even really need to do that because every modern OS out there ignores the BIOS anyways and probes for the hardware by themselves!
That's the most annoying part of it! Half the boot time (bios probes are awfully slow somehow) is spent on work that's duplicated in the second half of the entire boot time! I'm wasting precious online seconds for NOTHING!?
For example, my Mac will go from startup to login in half the time of either Vista -or- Ubuntu
Yeah. My guess is that that is mostly caused by the fact that MacOS is entirely configured for the specific hardware it's running on, while both Vista and Ubuntu have to account for an insane wide variety of pc configurations. I run Debian on all my computers, and with the default configuration and kernel it'll probe for tons of hardware at boot time. After compiling a kernel with support just for the hardware that's actually in the computer, and blacklisting modules I rarely need, it cuts linux' boot time by (guesstimated) 30% to 50%. Simply put, if I don't have any parallel port support in the kernel, it won't spend any time looking for it at boot time.
And then MacOS might be some faster just because Apple seems to be a company that keeps the user experience in mind enough to pay attention to it, and might have put some effort into cutting down boot times.
(not counting what happens -after- login, but as far as applications go, they're fairly straightforward), but my TV will start in a second or two. So did my old Commodore 64.
True. It's not really a fair comparison though. The C64 had no hard disk. It had its entire system in rom. There was about 1 possible audio chip, 1 possible video chip, only a couple models of disk drives tailored to the commodore specs. It doesn't need to probe for all the hardware we have nowadays... neither does it provide everything a pc of today does.
You can say the same about the TV. You're not gonna swap a video card in a tv. Or upgrade to gigabit ethernet. It doesn't need to do all the probing, but just has a config in rom. Reading from rom is extremely fast compared to probing.
How is it that the more power we get, the -longer- this takes? And why is it that the solution always involves hardware makers? Maybe we need to look at how our operating systems are constructed instead of blaming the hardware itself.
Well dunno if you picked up on that article recently about booting linux in 5 seconds... it's getting thoroughly looked at. That's why I'd give 5 seconds max to the BIOS as well, total boot time 10 seconds. If you really could save the BIOS detects to a flash and get linux to boot in 5 seconds, I actually think the entire pc could boot in 6 seconds!
The sollution really does involve hardware makers, bec
Dammit if you use the preview button to check a link don't accidently hit the submit button huh;) Well at least I got the link right.;)
Just wanted to add that Sea shepherd started ramming whaling ships because Greenpeace's pacifist approach proved to be ineffective. On a side note, coincidence or not, Japan has not reached their "scientific whaling quota" by far for the first time ever, instead of increasing it year after year.
So you can like or dislike either, however you can't call Greenpeace's 30 years of saying "hey! stop whaling!" aggressive. They disapprove of Sea Shepherd's actions and try to stay away from them to not be associated with them.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces a multi-billion dollar investment in a fleet of submarines.
You kid, but wait till Google has some shit that China, Iran, or even the US doesn't like. Or Greenpeace or some other aggressive group doesn't like.
Accidents do happen at sea!
Your example of Greenpeace as an aggressive group of people is misplaced imho. Perhaps they're loud , annoying and obnoxious, but aggressive they are not. They try to obstruct whaling for example, by putting their life at stake in small boats in the line of fire of harpoons.
Now compare this to Sea Shepherd, for example. One of Sea Shepherd continuous campaigns is the protection of whales in arctic territories. They've declared war on the whaler's ships and are ramming them.
Well, I'd have to be logged in to do that wouldn't I?
You are logged in. What's the problem?
What about new people coming here and seeing that crazy stuff?
Yeah, what about them.... do *you* know what they're thinking? Or are you trying to be helpful to do the thinking for them and conveniently decide what they need?
Or what if I just wanna quickly check/. from work without logging in
You should be working at work, I suppose, and you're worried about a story about a tech guy while reading slashdot *anyways*? Perhaps you've got something else to worry about!
I can understand your point, and to an extent agree, but forcing Idle on people is a bit odd.
Nobody's forcing anything on anyone.
The only thing that I can think of is that it's an odd way of enforced beta testing (i.e. idle is a place where the/. people are testing new ideas and they need as many eyes as possible).
Nod, to think of 'nother thing you'd need a sense of humor in the first place.
Most of us like a geek related laugh every once in a while apparently. It gets there through the firehose like everything else.
But... you're reading a site with the word "Sex' on it! How embarrassing!
I made it even more secure, and at the same time got rid of the worms trying to brute force my sshd 40 million times a day... Not that they were likely to succeed, but I dont want my hd to wear down in a year.
So I configured the linux firewall to drop all traffic to port 22. At same time I wrote a small php script that'll insert a firewall rule accepting packets to port 22 from the IP I'm at. Then I simply password protected the php script with.htaccess and voila...
Pretty damn safe ssh access for me when I need it... and no more worms banging on my door:)
Not until you state something slows down the process... what are you gonna count to measure its speed?
Counting genes? Species? The rate at which mankind destroys them? The amount of energy flowing through Earth' ecosystems?
What's a higher rate, the step from simple stuff to single cell beings, or to multiple cell beings, or to intelligent beings...
What's more successful... mankind, or the HIV virus killing it... What's more successful... the BILLIONS of worms in the ground, responsible for a lot of good ecological shit, or the great predators like lions and cheetas, probably the first to die when an ecosystem starts to erode and collapse...
What's progression... the extinction of dino's? Is that progression? Yet it's that what ultimately gave us mammals the chance... What's the higher rate of change? Who's more succesfull in life... the business man with his big business building... or the birds shitting on it while flying through the sky... The dino's way of paying us back!?;-)
What's a higher rate of change... one new gene, or the spread of it through half a population... which is more evolution...
It's all change... so what exactly is it that you'd want to count, and more importantly, why just that?
Point being, count something else and your high rate will often turn into a low one... Speed up one, slow down another. Which aspect is more evolution?
If you can say something slows down evolution, you can answer those questions...
The evolutionary process is not driven by some kind of intent
I completely agree. It just is and does.
(well, unless you believe it is God's intent).
Well if I'd believe it's God's intent, it wouldn't have to mean that it is driven by intent. Furthermore, I think God's intentions depend completely on the narrator's perspective.
It does have the effect of optimising in the direction of ensuring the perpetuation of life
Have you looked at the current state of Life on Earth lately?
While each individual would rather have a longer lifespan and birth control, this actually slows the evolutionary process, weakening the herd as a whole.
If you can say something slows down the evolutionary process, you should be able to tell me either the Goal of Evolution, or the Great Index of Evolutionary Progress!
Could you please please please enlighten me, oh great God of this Universe!?
Sometimes I wonder why people describe Slashdot as the most intelligent community on the 'net.
So did I. I found a very simple answer: Slashdot has an online discussion forum which is freely accessible to anyone with internet access. Internet access is very cheap nowadays, a lot of people have access to it, so you'll find Slashdot to have a very diverse population.
The majority of users think that the same old porn jokes are still funny in different contexts.
How many user of Slashdot did you interview? Is 2 jokes and 6 replies really enough to say anything but nonsense about the sense of humor of the majority of the slashdot population?
Do you realize that this community is fluid, people leave and join all the time? Could it be that it's new users repeating the old jokes, perhaps because they're new to Slashdot and trying to adapt to "slashdots sense of humor"?
I can't read a page here without picturing blathering, drooling morons.
Are these pages responsible for your thoughts, imagination and visualization?
At first, when I saw this, I chuckled. Then, I thought about all the times I've seen stories on/. about some company using GPL'ed code in their closed-source product. That pisses me off. Microsoft has decided that, if you want to use their software, you need to abide by their license agreement, which includes the stipulation that you pay for their software. If you don't want to pay for their code, then don't use their software.
I agree to that. I think, however, that most people see their piracy justified by Microsoft's monopoly tactics. Like, okay, fine if they're gonna stuff that down my throat, but no way in hell I'm gonna pay for it. Since I also think most people let the best justification win instead of the best motivation...
Myself, I'm a Linux and Mac user. I obviously don't pay for Linux, and I gladly pay for OS X when I buy a Mac from Apple. Power of choice, people, but you can't have it both ways. Either respect other people's licenses, or don't be surprised when they don't respect yours.
Why do you assume that you're talking about the SAME people? Why do you assume that those who have complained about GPL violations in the past, are the same people who are laughing out MS or posting the key now?
On a slightly more on-topic note, what about existing cellular networks and 'net connection? Sure, the bandwidth isn't going to be anything near that at the Starbucks/Hotspot, but coverage is built in already. Besides, the most vital mobile killer app is email, which is almost always low bandwidth/text.
On a slightly more off-topic note, what does it cost to send a SMS message from your mobile phone? I live in the Netherlands and the operators charge 0,22 for delivering a message, 140-160 characters at most. I don't think they're going to replace that with email anytime soon. No, instead, they realize they can just use SMS to send short emails for the same amount of money.
Nice point on the device integration issue btw. I think somewhere in the future though, your PDA will be obsolete when your phone takes notes for you while you talk...;-)
It doesn't need to be a lot of work either... because a nice tool exists which may aid you, and other people even created a website to run the tool for you.
It could be any of them. Evolution is pretty abstract and it depends on how you look at it.
Exactly... it depends on how you look at it. Whichever viewpoint you choose, it assumes a goal to evolution.
As far as success goes, what is here now has been successful up to this point.
Of course... but does that also mean dino's were less successful than us, because they're gone (though birds might be their descendends) ?
Could you say ALL homo habilis were successful, just because some evolved to homo sapiens? Had they not, then suddenly homo habilis could be seen as unsuccessful...?
Success also assumes a goal. Very much even;P
As far as which one is faster, who cares???
Well anyone wanting to "speed up evolution", I guess.
I did use the preview button this time... here's what missed last time I didn't:
What's more successful... the BILLIONS of worms in the ground, responsible for a lot of good ecological shit, or <insert your favorite predator here>, probably the first to die when an ecosystem starts to erode and collapse...
So what rate? Counting genes? Species? The rate at which mankind destroys everything else? The amount of energy flowing through Earth' ecosystems?
What's a higher rate, the step from simple stuff to single cell beings, or to multiple cell beings, or to intelligent beings...
What's more successful... mankind, or the HIV virus killing it...
What's more successful... the BILLIONS of worms in the ground, responsible for a lot of good ecological shit, or , probably the first to die when an ecosystem starts to erode and collapse...
What's progression... the extinction of dino's? Is that progression? Yet it's that what ultimately gave us mammals the chance... What's the higher rate of change?
Who's more succesfull in life... the business man with his big business building... or the birds shitting on it while flying through the sky... The dino's way of paying us back;-)
What's a higher rate of change... one new gene, or the spread of it through half a population... which is more evolution...
It's all change... so what exactly is it that you'd want to count, and more importantly, why just that?
Point being, count something else and your high rate will often turn into a low one...
Speed up one, slow down another. Which aspect is more evolution?
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You are right... you can't compress encrypted data very well... but you can encrypt compressed data just fine!
A compressed partition on an encrypted disk would be encrypting compressed data.
Close_Source==Money, Open_Source==!Money
The syntax is correct. It must be true.
Fixed it for you. I'm a noob taking a software engineering class at a community college.
Really.
We had a consultant come in for show-and-tell and he made some very good points, but he told us to stay away from open source because(shortened version) if we wanted to be well-known in the open source world then we'd have to slog it out full-time, fighting amongst other egos working for free just trying to get our names known.
No. Trying to get your WORK known. I don't see that much fighting amongst egos either. There's much less office politics involved with open source. If your work is of good quality it'll be accepted.
However, if you're a consultant and gotta talk your way through, open source is DEADLY to your business because all the sudden you've got to SHOW CODE instead of a "working prototype" and a big mouth full of worthless marketing buzz.
But he was wearing a suit and a tie so he's gotta be right.
"what's going to motivate them to follow standards?"
Being left behind.
I actually got that feeling too. More and more businesses see value in Linux, especially in these harsh economic times. They're taking efforts to make it suit their needs. The beauty of the whole open source environment is that everyone benefits. Really, even while a lot of people were sarcastic about linux on the desktop and such, I've been amazed by the growth of open source development in the past few years.
And it looks like that again there'll be more development next year than there was past year, with important hardware companies like Asus, Intel and HP getting more and more involved with linux. I'm interested to see what HP's gonna do with linux (besides making it slow ;) ). I've used hpux in the 90's... At first they had vue, later cde. Neither were bad for the time, though Motiff's really had its time ;p
Actually, I was going to look at the hardware vendor list that Nelson Russel used to keep but now it says:
Linux-supported Hardware
For quite some time, I used to list hardware companies which was supported by Linux in two senses: 1) their tech support people wouldn't quail at being asked about Linux, and 2) they advertised Linux support in a national magazine. There are now so many such firms that I can't keep up. I'm declaring victory and going home.
I have the gut feeling of getting to the point where we're even. Even if development wouldn't grow anymore, Microsoft's gonna bite the dust!
My guess is that that is mostly caused by the fact that MacOS is entirely configured for the specific hardware it's running on,
Hmm.. I took a hard drive out of a MacBook laptop and stuck it (with Firewire) to an iMac of a different generation (both Intel processors however) and booted no problem - I would assume that HW config is somewhat different between the machines.
Nod agreed. Did you boot from the harddisk you connected over firewire tho, or did you just use it as secondary disk?
Also, I personally don't have any macs... but I s'pose you could look at the hardware configurations to see what's really different? As long as the interface doesn't change, two different versions of hardware can use the same device driver. This does happen a lot.
You'd think that even though there are so many more variations of Windows systems that the OS would be optimized for the specific HW it is installed on - "m saying this because of Windows licensing that tends to get upset when you change the configuration of the PC - maybe my perception is wrong, but I think you can't take a bootable disk from one PC to another and boot it?
The windows licensing getting upset about hardware configurations has nothing to do with configuring windows for the hardware. It's called Windows Genuine Advantage and is there to lock your copy of windows down to your hardware. They want you to buy another copy of windows instead of copying what you already have. You know, if they want to give you a (virtual) advantage when you buy a copy of windows they've got to come up with a system to harm those who supposedly dont ;)
Anyhow, in the past I've had pc's crap out when I just stuck a hd from an old pc into a new one. Windows *does* of course configure to your hardware, knows which drivers to load and so on, but it doesn't stop probing for it. They call it a feature. If you install a new graphics card it detects it and prompts for a cd with drivers. Nice.
However, can I please have an icon to click to do the hardware detect the one in a thousand boots that I do actually have new hardware? I mean, I won't even waste time argueing those smart guys in Redmond, I *am* stupid, but I don't actually need to be smart to remember that I've installed some piece of hardware 10 seconds before I boot the machine, right?
Oh look, that icon has been there in the configuration panel for over 12 years! So really all windows needs to do is stop the automatic probing at boot... and let me use this icon for once...
Why this is still an issue in this day and age.
Yeah man. Even worse. I read the title and thought, 'Oh finally!'. Then I read that the goal is to make the system boot time somewhere from 15 to 30 seconds :/ What kind of ambition is that for cryin out loud!? If linux can detect all hardware and be ready (including the desktop!) by itself in 5 seconds, surely we could make the entire pc boot in 10?
Would it really be so hard to just make an option in the BIOS to detect now, and save hardware detection information? So instead of detecting it every damn boot for years and years on, detecting all the same hardware again and again and again, you could just have it detect it once, save it, and it just won't probe for hardware at boot anymore? I'm not really into bioses, but I'd guess some 64kb flash would be *plenty* for that purpose...? Woohoo my future new motherboard just increased in price by a dime... but instant boot at hand!
All you'd need to do is rescan and save when you change the hardware configuration. Tho most probably you wouldn't even really need to do that because every modern OS out there ignores the BIOS anyways and probes for the hardware by themselves!
That's the most annoying part of it! Half the boot time (bios probes are awfully slow somehow) is spent on work that's duplicated in the second half of the entire boot time! I'm wasting precious online seconds for NOTHING!?
For example, my Mac will go from startup to login in half the time of either Vista -or- Ubuntu
Yeah. My guess is that that is mostly caused by the fact that MacOS is entirely configured for the specific hardware it's running on, while both Vista and Ubuntu have to account for an insane wide variety of pc configurations. I run Debian on all my computers, and with the default configuration and kernel it'll probe for tons of hardware at boot time. After compiling a kernel with support just for the hardware that's actually in the computer, and blacklisting modules I rarely need, it cuts linux' boot time by (guesstimated) 30% to 50%. Simply put, if I don't have any parallel port support in the kernel, it won't spend any time looking for it at boot time.
And then MacOS might be some faster just because Apple seems to be a company that keeps the user experience in mind enough to pay attention to it, and might have put some effort into cutting down boot times.
(not counting what happens -after- login, but as far as applications go, they're fairly straightforward), but my TV will start in a second or two. So did my old Commodore 64.
True. It's not really a fair comparison though. The C64 had no hard disk. It had its entire system in rom. There was about 1 possible audio chip, 1 possible video chip, only a couple models of disk drives tailored to the commodore specs. It doesn't need to probe for all the hardware we have nowadays... neither does it provide everything a pc of today does.
You can say the same about the TV. You're not gonna swap a video card in a tv. Or upgrade to gigabit ethernet. It doesn't need to do all the probing, but just has a config in rom. Reading from rom is extremely fast compared to probing.
How is it that the more power we get, the -longer- this takes? And why is it that the solution always involves hardware makers? Maybe we need to look at how our operating systems are constructed instead of blaming the hardware itself.
Well dunno if you picked up on that article recently about booting linux in 5 seconds... it's getting thoroughly looked at. That's why I'd give 5 seconds max to the BIOS as well, total boot time 10 seconds. If you really could save the BIOS detects to a flash and get linux to boot in 5 seconds, I actually think the entire pc could boot in 6 seconds!
The sollution really does involve hardware makers, bec
Dammit if you use the preview button to check a link don't accidently hit the submit button huh ;) Well at least I got the link right. ;)
Just wanted to add that Sea shepherd started ramming whaling ships because Greenpeace's pacifist approach proved to be ineffective. On a side note, coincidence or not, Japan has not reached their "scientific whaling quota" by far for the first time ever, instead of increasing it year after year.
So you can like or dislike either, however you can't call Greenpeace's 30 years of saying "hey! stop whaling!" aggressive. They disapprove of Sea Shepherd's actions and try to stay away from them to not be associated with them.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces a multi-billion dollar investment in a fleet of submarines.
You kid, but wait till Google has some shit that China, Iran, or even the US doesn't like. Or Greenpeace or some other aggressive group doesn't like.
Accidents do happen at sea!
Your example of Greenpeace as an aggressive group of people is misplaced imho. Perhaps they're loud , annoying and obnoxious, but aggressive they are not. They try to obstruct whaling for example, by putting their life at stake in small boats in the line of fire of harpoons.
Now compare this to Sea Shepherd, for example. One of Sea Shepherd continuous campaigns is the protection of whales in arctic territories. They've declared war on the whaler's ships and are ramming them.
http://www.seashepherd.org/whales/
they're
Well, I'd have to be logged in to do that wouldn't I?
You are logged in. What's the problem?
What about new people coming here and seeing that crazy stuff?
Yeah, what about them.... do *you* know what they're thinking? Or are you trying to be helpful to do the thinking for them and conveniently decide what they need?
Or what if I just wanna quickly check /. from work without logging in
You should be working at work, I suppose, and you're worried about a story about a tech guy while reading slashdot *anyways*? Perhaps you've got something else to worry about!
I can understand your point, and to an extent agree, but forcing Idle on people is a bit odd.
Nobody's forcing anything on anyone.
The only thing that I can think of is that it's an odd way of enforced beta testing (i.e. idle is a place where the /. people are testing new ideas and they need as many eyes as possible).
Nod, to think of 'nother thing you'd need a sense of humor in the first place.
Most of us like a geek related laugh every once in a while apparently. It gets there through the firehose like everything else.
But... you're reading a site with the word "Sex' on it! How embarrassing!
Uh I paid about 2.5 euro ($3.5 or so) for the fly zapper... fun enough... i think the stunguns are too valuable to buy ;)
Man these fly zappers have been around here (netherlands) for ages... no need to visit Taiwan for them :)
I even have a suggestion to make... If you try to hit the fly hard enough the zap rackets will break into two pieces...
You could increase the fun by soldering in a bigger capacitor... :)
I made it even more secure, and at the same time got rid of the worms trying to brute force my sshd 40 million times a day... Not that they were likely to succeed, but I dont want my hd to wear down in a year.
So I configured the linux firewall to drop all traffic to port 22. At same time I wrote a small php script that'll insert a firewall rule accepting packets to port 22 from the IP I'm at. Then I simply password protected the php script with .htaccess and voila...
Pretty damn safe ssh access for me when I need it... and no more worms banging on my door :)
Not until you state something slows down the process... what are you gonna count to measure its speed?
Counting genes? Species? The rate at which mankind destroys them? The amount of energy flowing through Earth' ecosystems?
What's a higher rate, the step from simple stuff to single cell beings, or to multiple cell beings, or to intelligent beings...
What's more successful... mankind, or the HIV virus killing it... What's more successful... the BILLIONS of worms in the ground, responsible for a lot of good ecological shit, or the great predators like lions and cheetas, probably the first to die when an ecosystem starts to erode and collapse...
What's progression... the extinction of dino's? Is that progression? Yet it's that what ultimately gave us mammals the chance... What's the higher rate of change? Who's more succesfull in life... the business man with his big business building... or the birds shitting on it while flying through the sky... The dino's way of paying us back!?
What's a higher rate of change... one new gene, or the spread of it through half a population... which is more evolution...
It's all change... so what exactly is it that you'd want to count, and more importantly, why just that?
Point being, count something else and your high rate will often turn into a low one... Speed up one, slow down another. Which aspect is more evolution?
If you can say something slows down evolution, you can answer those questions...
The evolutionary process is not driven by some kind of intent
I completely agree. It just is and does.
(well, unless you believe it is God's intent).
Well if I'd believe it's God's intent, it wouldn't have to mean that it is driven by intent. Furthermore, I think God's intentions depend completely on the narrator's perspective.
It does have the effect of optimising in the direction of ensuring the perpetuation of life
Have you looked at the current state of Life on Earth lately?
While each individual would rather have a longer lifespan and birth control, this actually slows the evolutionary process, weakening the herd as a whole.
If you can say something slows down the evolutionary process, you should be able to tell me either the Goal of Evolution, or the Great Index of Evolutionary Progress!
Could you please please please enlighten me, oh great God of this Universe!?
Sometimes I wonder why people describe Slashdot as the most intelligent community on the 'net.
So did I. I found a very simple answer: Slashdot has an online discussion forum which is freely accessible to anyone with internet access. Internet access is very cheap nowadays, a lot of people have access to it, so you'll find Slashdot to have a very diverse population.
The majority of users think that the same old porn jokes are still funny in different contexts.
How many user of Slashdot did you interview? Is 2 jokes and 6 replies really enough to say anything but nonsense about the sense of humor of the majority of the slashdot population?
Do you realize that this community is fluid, people leave and join all the time? Could it be that it's new users repeating the old jokes, perhaps because they're new to Slashdot and trying to adapt to "slashdots sense of humor"?
I can't read a page here without picturing blathering, drooling morons.
Are these pages responsible for your thoughts, imagination and visualization?
It's not the message, but the package, that's flamebait, like:
You might not like it, but its fact!
As much as it is fact that people will mod you down for flamebaiting if you call 'em fucktards.
My advise: Get used to it, stop complaining, or learn how to write decently.
And now... Shall we continue to post all the bugs that crash Mozilla, Netscape or Galeon?
Sure. It'd be appreciated, too.
I agree to that. I think, however, that most people see their piracy justified by Microsoft's monopoly tactics. Like, okay, fine if they're gonna stuff that down my throat, but no way in hell I'm gonna pay for it. Since I also think most people let the best justification win instead of the best motivation...
Why do you assume that you're talking about the SAME people? Why do you assume that those who have complained about GPL violations in the past, are the same people who are laughing out MS or posting the key now?
It's a bad thing because it means we'll have MORE of those worms crawlin' on the 'net..
;-)
Hordes of bugridden first releases from Microsoft(tm)... all connected to the internet...
I bet $5 the first worm for win2k3server will be released before win2k3server...
Maybe you'd like to take a look at Liftport Authority Inc's flash site.
On a slightly more on-topic note, what about existing cellular networks and 'net connection? Sure, the bandwidth isn't going to be anything near that at the Starbucks/Hotspot, but coverage is built in already. Besides, the most vital mobile killer app is email, which is almost always low bandwidth/text.
;-)
On a slightly more off-topic note, what does it cost to send a SMS message from your mobile phone?
I live in the Netherlands and the operators charge 0,22 for delivering a message, 140-160 characters at most. I don't think they're going to replace that with email anytime soon. No, instead, they realize they can just use SMS to send short emails for the same amount of money.
Nice point on the device integration issue btw. I think somewhere in the future though, your PDA will be obsolete when your phone takes notes for you while you talk...
Or rather this tool, actually, which is for open mail relays. The other one's for proxies. Got those too? Ever bothered checking them?
It doesn't need to be a lot of work either... because a nice tool exists which may aid you, and other people even created a website to run the tool for you.
Alternatively, you can telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org from the mailserver.
Exactly... it depends on how you look at it. Whichever viewpoint you choose, it assumes a goal to evolution.
As far as success goes, what is here now has been successful up to this point.
Of course... but does that also mean dino's were less successful than us, because they're gone (though birds might be their descendends) ?
Could you say ALL homo habilis were successful, just because some evolved to homo sapiens? Had they not, then suddenly homo habilis could be seen as unsuccessful...?
Success also assumes a goal. Very much even
As far as which one is faster, who cares???
Well anyone wanting to "speed up evolution", I guess.
I did use the preview button this time... here's what missed last time I didn't:
What's more successful... the BILLIONS of worms in the ground, responsible for a lot of good ecological shit, or <insert your favorite predator here>, probably the first to die when an ecosystem starts to erode and collapse...
So what rate? Counting genes? Species? The rate at which mankind destroys everything else? The amount of energy flowing through Earth' ecosystems?
What's a higher rate, the step from simple stuff to single cell beings, or to multiple cell beings, or to intelligent beings...
What's more successful... mankind, or the HIV virus killing it...
What's more successful... the BILLIONS of worms in the ground, responsible for a lot of good ecological shit, or , probably the first to die when an ecosystem starts to erode and collapse...
What's progression... the extinction of dino's? Is that progression? Yet it's that what ultimately gave us mammals the chance... What's the higher rate of change?
Who's more succesfull in life... the business man with his big business building... or the birds shitting on it while flying through the sky... The dino's way of paying us back
What's a higher rate of change... one new gene, or the spread of it through half a population... which is more evolution...
It's all change... so what exactly is it that you'd want to count, and more importantly, why just that?
Point being, count something else and your high rate will often turn into a low one...
Speed up one, slow down another. Which aspect is more evolution?
Since evolution doesn't have speed... or goal.