Let's see. So you want to get a job that has something to do with free software...
Well, why don't you work on a project, put that in a portfolio, showing that you can handle your own ass, without management, gratis.
Search for some awesome jobs, like at Valve (yes, no not the server component for Counter-strike), Fedora or AMD. Click that "Apply for a job-interview button" and continue with development, next to a sysadmin job, untill you get notified about a job interview?
It's so damn difficult these day to figure out what you want to do with your own life these days. Maybe Slashdot will decide what to do with your life, for you?
Yes, I'm being a complete asshole. Yes you should mod this down under "painfull truth no-one can handle", section 1: "extremely offensive" or section 2:"It's someone else's fault, not mine", but section 3: "flamebait trolls" sound appropriate.
I'm guessing that the people up top, somewhere, who invest heavily with money in return for information (Google, Facebook, NSA lalalal), want that financial bubble to explode, which is also reffered to as the Economy.
I don't realy think Assange is being played. I suspect that Assange (cypherpunk, Russia TV coorporation, technocracy) is playing us, by means of the well-known Indian Rope Trick.
And Technocracy 'predicts' a final war. Remember how World War I got started? Now, it just seems to be that, given he also claims to have devastating evidence in the wellknown thermonuclear insurance file, this could be a brilliant play in a conversion of governance, that we haven't seen since the enlightenment transition during the end of the medieval period.
Now please take into account that I'm merely speculating my ass of, but it does represent a possibility, that is along the lines of "History repeats itself". Then again I'm just speculating, semi-anonimously on some internet page. Don't believe everything you read, including mine;-)
Well, since time isn't linear in this case, and so each step/change (time is advancement through possibilities) is not fixed, you can bump into 48%, when measured in linear time.
The boot process is greatly sped up with SystemD. Even though there is a chain of dependancies in the boot process, SystemD manages to boot largely in parallel, still. It is compatible with SysV bootscripts, so no sweat here;-)
Fedora is a nice distro, but not stable. However, if you boot directly to a prompt, even Ubuntu Servers boots in a few seconds of a mechanical drive.
Now on to the data sharing; take a look at FUSE (Filesystem In UserSpace). This allows for unifying multiple filesystems into on virtual filesystem.
You can PM me for further questions and for asking my e-mail, if you need more direct contact:-)
Well the KDE part is true, because it doesn't need to be optimized (svg, muthafuckas).
And the fact that it doesn't work, is the result of Linux' greatness. How is that? Well it's: -Make it work; -Make it work well; -Optimize.
That's why Linux works so well. In contrast with bleeding edge consumer crap (yes, you can put the pun right here), which tries to do all three at the same time, resulting in some nasty and unmainteable crap. Now insert Apple here, and you know why they constantly have to rewrite their software. So if you run OSx86 on non-Apple hardware, you can observe the insuficient as shit quality of the good.
Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough, so the saying goes. Now wonder why there are fences throughout Apple products, everywhere. I mean the synchronization fences in the software form of the word.
So you get you Macbook out of your backpack and show everyone how fast it is, but it isn't; the smoothness consumes ALL compute power, so that shit in the background completely stalls. But that can be fixed with insanely huge batteries, which makes you think that the Macbook is oh so power efficient, but in reality it takes ages to charge and is draining a horrible amount of power.
Then people bitch at Vista, and say that Windows 7 is an improvement, but they don't realise that in reality, Vista consumes less power, makes everything that you do go faster (hello optimal multitasking).
Apple sucks. It fits the category of people who suck at computers too, which is the entire population normal, which is why Apple is so succesful, and their marketing so easy.
In reality Microsoft makes more worthy products, because they own the market, and Linux is of a higher quality.
But I'm sure that high dense pixel panel is more awesome than having a high contrast display like Nokia's ClearBlack, which is actually readable outside in the sun. But hey; "OMG RETINA 1337 xXx uLtr4H4x0rzzzz"
another distro to fragment the already shattered linux community
Shattered? We're talking about FLOSS mixtapes variations. In the end all your shit needs to run on a compute unit and that's where the real pain comes from.
An OS is just a fucked up large hardware abstraction framework+driver library, managing execution.
It's Microsoft's fault for making what people wanted: cheap crap for the masses that is just not sucking enough on all fronts for everybody to not hate so much that they refuse to put up with it.
In the end this is what we as a human species are responsable for and the best we can do so far. So pherhaps there is no such thing as a community in actual object terms.
And to add to the list: the community developpers are actually just business programmers, making a living out of collectively writing 80% of the entire damn Linux mainline code.
I'd go with "community" when I'd talk about the GNU project. But sadly it takes a Linux to come to realize how far we might actually need to thank the tinfoil hats in the extremist FLOSS camps. (I added extremist for fun, because it makes something that's perfectly fine, look like they have the mindset of stupid, violent, bored and upstanding ex-civilians, ready to blow up random strangers, while they are in fact helping random strangers acquire the tools to defend themselves in the uprising info economy*)
*Refference to the cypherpunk movement, before this discussion derailes like no tommorow
We're not talking about Linus wanting nVidia to open up their driver. We're talking about something as extremely simple as how to even interface with it. How is Linux as a kernel, even damn able to recognise it, so it can load appropriate drivers? How is Linux able to put it in standby mode and get it out of it?
We're not talking about OpenGL here; we're talking about some stupid PCI identifier codes and basic register numbers. That's it! Sure there is the basic nVidia's open source display driver, but that's not the damn point for kernel devs.
Notice how Linus said "work with". nVidia PR just responds like it's a matter of "Please go open source", which is totally besides the damn point.
No this isn't their move and this isn't their vision. Microsoft does see value in third party replica's and that's exactly what Bill Gates always wanted (Information At Your Fingertips, 1993 and Bill Gates' Harvard Speech with Steve Ballmer in the background): Making computing dirt cheap for everyone to buy, even third world developping countries. Third party replica's will enable dirt cheap devices. This device takes that one step further by combining seperate devices.
The reason Microsoft had to make a new Windows 'stage' device, Apple style, was because they learned the very hard way (they have an insanely large back catalog of failure documentation to learn from) that you have to be the first one to get it right and not be the first one to get there.
It would be a blow for Microsoft and Bill Gates if they didn't lisence it to third parties. If only for the fact that they would eliminate OS competition that way (and look at Nokia for proof).
It is neither. Apple has nothing on this, because Apple has nothing like it. It's a tablet and laptop in one and not a rushy hackjob. What Apple product should we compare this with?
I've been waiting for such a combiner that's not a jack of all trades, master of none, but for the perfect device to come from Microsoft, of all companies... Apple's dead. And that statement comes from a Linux fan, writing this post on his iPad.
Now you might think "lol whatever", but look at Bill Gates his 1993 keynote called "Information at you fingertips". Everything Apple has 'invented', was actually all Microsoft vision. And now that Apple has allmost implemented all of it (minus the wall PC (iPanel, wait for it lol) and iTunes Art (wait for that too)), what is Apple going to come up with? Now that Microsoft has gotten her workforce right, the company is in for some serious pwnage. And what's going to safe Apple, now that Microsoft has managed to have an even more simplistic and better functioning UI? The software and hardware integration? They just lost that too.
No... For the first time in history, Microsoft has out-Apple'd Apple. Microsoft is going to take back that 5% marketshare mistake and they have a killer combination with Azure for the cloud philosophy. Even WinFS is starting to come through in Windows 8. Piece by piece.
Apple's finnished. Only the iPhone's where Apple has the edge, but all Microsoft has to do is apply their hardly gained magic there and it's over.
You're better of with Fedora, because it's the Red Hat backed distro that is bleeding edge, but upstream. As raw and original as it gets. It also has the latest open source drivers.
If you want to live in the world of closed and patented crap (can't blame you as it's all around us, everywhere) then you can get away with RPMFusion, which is a repository (app store thing) full of borderline illegal (as in against lobbied laws) stuff like automatic DVD 'copy protection' cracking on the fly, MPEG codecs, patented stuff and what have you? You can simply enable that with the browser.
Don't try it out on virtual setups; it runs best bare metal. In fact; its very nature is to be close to the metal.
Don't expect the bleeding edge KDE spin on the bleeding edge Fedora Linux distro to be a ccomplete polished ride, but even though the learning curve is a little steep (in OS enduser terms); the hill is very low, so to speak. Once over it, then it becomes second nature and you'll start to wonder why the hell more popular OS's are so full of crap in the way they do things. But it's not as smooth as Apple's OS from the start, so bare that in mind!;)
Well there are certain directions one can choose, and given that I wanted to go for Embedded Systems, databases isn't part of what I have to learn or go in depth with, and so it's probably not even on the checklist of what I can do, but it's considdered important to know that I do get a feel of what databases are.
But the point of the new style of education in my country is not learning something (since after four years the stuff you learn is outdated anyway) but that students learn how to learn new stuff, so when one gets a job, a student knows how to keep up with technology. It's not that I got taught about MySQL, it was "This is your first project; make a prototype security door by soldering some components together to a CD-ROM drive, include some sencors, program the microcontroller, create administration software for it and attach it to a database. Acces cards are rfid chips, figure it, figure out how to secure it on the rfid level and database level. Also host the database. Go."
We do have a 'mediocre proffesion education' in my country that's all about getting certificate x, learn technique y, learn Cisco, but that's not what I'm doing. Hell MySQL was on the checklist of high school (along with Basic, lol).
I've never heared of the term trade school before, but that seems to be it. After getting a bachelor I can go to a (what you call) university and do a master (and skip the bachelor part). One the possibilities is in the area of Quantum computing, but I'm not sure if (aside from the fun aspect) I'm going to do that. It's expensive and possible the horror of overqualification.
What kind of a shitty university do you get these from? In my country (not the US), I'm not even halfway and already I had to learn: 1. Operating System design; 2. industrial processor assembly languages; 3. UML; 4. java; 5. C; 6. C++; 7. Processor designs; 8. Math; 9. Logic; 10. MySQL; 11. Unix and Windows networking; 12. Internet protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, etc); 13. Networking architecture (internet tiers, wireless networking, industrial ethernet, etc.) 14. Logic boards (breadboards, soldering, reading ARM specs and erreta's etc.) 15. Writing a Bluetooth device driver; 16. Game design (3D modeling, OpenGL, storyboarding, etc) 17. Professional skills (project management, documentation, etc.) 18. Optimizing algorythms; 19. Learning industrial processes; 20. What did I miss?
Sound like the level of eduation in your area sucks balls...
Yes, but trusted computing is not trusted security. Trusted computing means only executing sealed binaries if they haven't been tempored with. This, however, does not mean that it's secure. In fact, if there is a flaw in the sealed binary, you can trust that the flaw will be executed.
Trusted Computing is kind of confusing as it is not that much of a security mechanism as it is a DRM scheme. Therefore trust doesn't mean relience on something, that you can't secure, to work, for which you can do nothing but trust that it won't fail.
It's not true. It climbed to 600.000 infections, according to Kaspersky (anti-virus developper) and dropped to 30.000.
Anyone cautious of privacy and security should know that the OS isn't targetted so much anymore, because aside from it being illegal and a more fragmented market now, you can legally spy on people with tracking the web. The web is where all the action happens (Banking, Facebook, etc.). Seriously; install Collusion for Chrome or Firefox, lurk an hour on the web and see what's tracking you. It's insane.
So the new security is in web browsers. And anyone who values their web security has a coockie, script, plugin and TCP/IP domain blocker. And if you had the plugin blocker (disableing the autorun), you wouldn't have this drive-by hack.
But ofcourse even OpenBSD had remote holes, which proves that (and anyone arguing otherwise is an idiot) any OS is hackeable.
What's so funny (actually sad) about this, is that Trusted Computing doesn't protect against this shit. So much for that argument. Even with Gatekeeper (Mac OS X tool for allowing users to decide if they do or do not want to be able to execute non-sealed binaries (DRM'd/ Appstore stuff).
Meh... I want a server somewhere in my house, a TV sized screen in the living room, a tablet screen and a desktop screen.
All data Plan9 from Bell Labs style on the server (removeable harddrive slots with clone functionality for backup storing purposes when they get full and content goes on newer, larger and faster harddrive).
Apps in the form of GTK3/Qt HTMLv5 style, steamed over the home network/VPN and all local apps via Java/GNU Smalltalk (platform abstracted code, platform abstracted packages, OpenGL bindings plus touch and interface improved API's.
All local input and output devices with Bluetooth (cut the wires) with enhanced security, except for the printer.
That way the TV is a TV, console, cinema and home portal for ubiquitous household devices. The smartphone terminal is a remote, compas, phone, whatever. The tablet is for everything else replacing the last non-digital stuff (maps, boardgames, whatever) and the desktop is for development and other production stuff.
All should have EyeFinity/retena resolution and the desktop and TV should come with a logic module that you can replace with a new one (better SoC, newer networking/device interfaces, etc).
How about stopping the stupid cannabis war? Not only do you need about 33% of the current police force (I kid you not), but also there will be massive hippy protest to stop costly wars, saving even more.
Problem? I'm sure some cannabis smokers who get high before bedtime will totally bring evil to the world! (not)
And by default I'm guessing GCC? Don't know, but Apple used to include that in Mac OS X, untill GCC was released under the GPLv3, Apple stuck with that ever older GCC GPLv2 version and is developping Clang (I believe?) as a compiler frontend for LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine Jit compiler thing).
Well aside from an iPad, I don't own Apple products. I hate Apple products, but when I was in need of a tablet for setting up my own Cloud with a Linux box, and I was able to get one for free, why not?
I was googleing what the hell Airport was, stumbled upon an Apple page explaining the home network. Then I searched for routing capabilities, as no such thing was mentioned on that particular Apple page (they removed IPv6, so go figure) and then I stumbled upon a Mac forum in which someone asked if he/she could use Airport as a router with his modem, to which someone replied that it could be possible, implying that it's not actually supposed to be used for that.
I could have looked further, but didn't really like the braincell killing content of all the 'information' (stupid computernoob-talk) Google gave me, so I gave up. That's why said 'investigate', not investigate.
I was really puzzled about this, so I went to 'investigate' the issue a bit. Turns out Airport is not a router, but a sort of wireless switch (no modem). So this is probably another speed optimization as packets are 96bit smaller and your home network probably isn't filled with more than 4294967296 devices.
The first thing that comes to my mind is how in the hell this is going to work when you want to access the internet in such a configuration. The utility or physical Airport station probably converts this. I don't think Apple is that retarded...
Oh I like it. Let everyone lose over patent wars. Besides killing useless patent pools, they will at one point discover that patents hurt more than they bring to the table and this whole patent shithole can be sealed of.
I have been waiting for the big guys to start fighting this war and I'm enjoying it! Only this way free software and the small guys can shake of the patent hell, since talking and protesting didn't work.
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Let's see. So you want to get a job that has something to do with free software...
Well, why don't you work on a project, put that in a portfolio, showing that you can handle your own ass, without management, gratis.
Search for some awesome jobs, like at Valve (yes, no not the server component for Counter-strike), Fedora or AMD. Click that "Apply for a job-interview button" and continue with development, next to a sysadmin job, untill you get notified about a job interview?
It's so damn difficult these day to figure out what you want to do with your own life these days. Maybe Slashdot will decide what to do with your life, for you?
Yes, I'm being a complete asshole. Yes you should mod this down under "painfull truth no-one can handle", section 1: "extremely offensive" or section 2:"It's someone else's fault, not mine", but section 3: "flamebait trolls" sound appropriate.
You know what works even better? The streisand effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
I'm guessing that the people up top, somewhere, who invest heavily with money in return for information (Google, Facebook, NSA lalalal), want that financial bubble to explode, which is also reffered to as the Economy.
I don't realy think Assange is being played. I suspect that Assange (cypherpunk, Russia TV coorporation, technocracy) is playing us, by means of the well-known Indian Rope Trick.
And Technocracy 'predicts' a final war. Remember how World War I got started? Now, it just seems to be that, given he also claims to have devastating evidence in the wellknown thermonuclear insurance file, this could be a brilliant play in a conversion of governance, that we haven't seen since the enlightenment transition during the end of the medieval period.
Now please take into account that I'm merely speculating my ass of, but it does represent a possibility, that is along the lines of "History repeats itself". Then again I'm just speculating, semi-anonimously on some internet page. Don't believe everything you read, including mine ;-)
Just like converting between units:
(1/3)+(2/3)=1;
0,333333333~+0,666666666~=0,99999999~;
1=0,99999999~.
So in this case, the conversion hit 48% linear time here (and 52% elsewhere, hehe), so (48+52)/2=0.
But math isn't pure logic, and so there can never be proof/disprove of what I have typed in this post...
Well, since time isn't linear in this case, and so each step/change (time is advancement through possibilities) is not fixed, you can bump into 48%, when measured in linear time.
PS: Coreboot is a standard BIOS replacement that makes massive server booting and rebooting a matter of seconds, instead of minutes :)
The boot process is greatly sped up with SystemD. Even though there is a chain of dependancies in the boot process, SystemD manages to boot largely in parallel, still. It is compatible with SysV bootscripts, so no sweat here ;-)
Fedora is a nice distro, but not stable. However, if you boot directly to a prompt, even Ubuntu Servers boots in a few seconds of a mechanical drive.
Now on to the data sharing; take a look at FUSE (Filesystem In UserSpace). This allows for unifying multiple filesystems into on virtual filesystem.
You can PM me for further questions and for asking my e-mail, if you need more direct contact :-)
Well the KDE part is true, because it doesn't need to be optimized (svg, muthafuckas).
And the fact that it doesn't work, is the result of Linux' greatness. How is that? Well it's:
-Make it work;
-Make it work well;
-Optimize.
That's why Linux works so well. In contrast with bleeding edge consumer crap (yes, you can put the pun right here), which tries to do all three at the same time, resulting in some nasty and unmainteable crap. Now insert Apple here, and you know why they constantly have to rewrite their software. So if you run OSx86 on non-Apple hardware, you can observe the insuficient as shit quality of the good.
Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough, so the saying goes. Now wonder why there are fences throughout Apple products, everywhere. I mean the synchronization fences in the software form of the word.
So you get you Macbook out of your backpack and show everyone how fast it is, but it isn't; the smoothness consumes ALL compute power, so that shit in the background completely stalls. But that can be fixed with insanely huge batteries, which makes you think that the Macbook is oh so power efficient, but in reality it takes ages to charge and is draining a horrible amount of power.
Then people bitch at Vista, and say that Windows 7 is an improvement, but they don't realise that in reality, Vista consumes less power, makes everything that you do go faster (hello optimal multitasking).
Apple sucks. It fits the category of people who suck at computers too, which is the entire population normal, which is why Apple is so succesful, and their marketing so easy.
In reality Microsoft makes more worthy products, because they own the market, and Linux is of a higher quality.
But I'm sure that high dense pixel panel is more awesome than having a high contrast display like Nokia's ClearBlack, which is actually readable outside in the sun. But hey; "OMG RETINA 1337 xXx uLtr4H4x0rzzzz"
Please don't make me cry...
another distro to fragment the already shattered linux community
Shattered? We're talking about FLOSS mixtapes variations. In the end all your shit needs to run on a compute unit and that's where the real pain comes from.
An OS is just a fucked up large hardware abstraction framework+driver library, managing execution.
It's Microsoft's fault for making what people wanted: cheap crap for the masses that is just not sucking enough on all fronts for everybody to not hate so much that they refuse to put up with it.
In the end this is what we as a human species are responsable for and the best we can do so far. So pherhaps there is no such thing as a community in actual object terms.
And to add to the list: the community developpers are actually just business programmers, making a living out of collectively writing 80% of the entire damn Linux mainline code.
I'd go with "community" when I'd talk about the GNU project. But sadly it takes a Linux to come to realize how far we might actually need to thank the tinfoil hats in the extremist FLOSS camps. (I added extremist for fun, because it makes something that's perfectly fine, look like they have the mindset of stupid, violent, bored and upstanding ex-civilians, ready to blow up random strangers, while they are in fact helping random strangers acquire the tools to defend themselves in the uprising info economy*)
*Refference to the cypherpunk movement, before this discussion derailes like no tommorow
Impossible. The legal review takes a lot longer than that. HDMI open sourcing, for example, is taking... Ages! Although that is DRM (rights) stuff...
We're not talking about Linus wanting nVidia to open up their driver. We're talking about something as extremely simple as how to even interface with it. How is Linux as a kernel, even damn able to recognise it, so it can load appropriate drivers? How is Linux able to put it in standby mode and get it out of it?
We're not talking about OpenGL here; we're talking about some stupid PCI identifier codes and basic register numbers. That's it! Sure there is the basic nVidia's open source display driver, but that's not the damn point for kernel devs.
Notice how Linus said "work with". nVidia PR just responds like it's a matter of "Please go open source", which is totally besides the damn point.
No this isn't their move and this isn't their vision. Microsoft does see value in third party replica's and that's exactly what Bill Gates always wanted (Information At Your Fingertips, 1993 and Bill Gates' Harvard Speech with Steve Ballmer in the background):
Making computing dirt cheap for everyone to buy, even third world developping countries. Third party replica's will enable dirt cheap devices. This device takes that one step further by combining seperate devices.
The reason Microsoft had to make a new Windows 'stage' device, Apple style, was because they learned the very hard way (they have an insanely large back catalog of failure documentation to learn from) that you have to be the first one to get it right and not be the first one to get there.
It would be a blow for Microsoft and Bill Gates if they didn't lisence it to third parties. If only for the fact that they would eliminate OS competition that way (and look at Nokia for proof).
It is neither. Apple has nothing on this, because Apple has nothing like it. It's a tablet and laptop in one and not a rushy hackjob. What Apple product should we compare this with?
I've been waiting for such a combiner that's not a jack of all trades, master of none, but for the perfect device to come from Microsoft, of all companies... Apple's dead. And that statement comes from a Linux fan, writing this post on his iPad.
Now you might think "lol whatever", but look at Bill Gates his 1993 keynote called "Information at you fingertips". Everything Apple has 'invented', was actually all Microsoft vision. And now that Apple has allmost implemented all of it (minus the wall PC (iPanel, wait for it lol) and iTunes Art (wait for that too)), what is Apple going to come up with? Now that Microsoft has gotten her workforce right, the company is in for some serious pwnage. And what's going to safe Apple, now that Microsoft has managed to have an even more simplistic and better functioning UI? The software and hardware integration? They just lost that too.
No... For the first time in history, Microsoft has out-Apple'd Apple. Microsoft is going to take back that 5% marketshare mistake and they have a killer combination with Azure for the cloud philosophy. Even WinFS is starting to come through in Windows 8. Piece by piece.
Apple's finnished. Only the iPhone's where Apple has the edge, but all Microsoft has to do is apply their hardly gained magic there and it's over.
If you want a pile of unstable crap then yes.
You're better of with Fedora, because it's the Red Hat backed distro that is bleeding edge, but upstream. As raw and original as it gets. It also has the latest open source drivers.
If you want to live in the world of closed and patented crap (can't blame you as it's all around us, everywhere) then you can get away with RPMFusion, which is a repository (app store thing) full of borderline illegal (as in against lobbied laws) stuff like automatic DVD 'copy protection' cracking on the fly, MPEG codecs, patented stuff and what have you? You can simply enable that with the browser.
Don't try it out on virtual setups; it runs best bare metal. In fact; its very nature is to be close to the metal.
Don't expect the bleeding edge KDE spin on the bleeding edge Fedora Linux distro to be a ccomplete polished ride, but even though the learning curve is a little steep (in OS enduser terms); the hill is very low, so to speak. Once over it, then it becomes second nature and you'll start to wonder why the hell more popular OS's are so full of crap in the way they do things. But it's not as smooth as Apple's OS from the start, so bare that in mind! ;)
Well there are certain directions one can choose, and given that I wanted to go for Embedded Systems, databases isn't part of what I have to learn or go in depth with, and so it's probably not even on the checklist of what I can do, but it's considdered important to know that I do get a feel of what databases are.
But the point of the new style of education in my country is not learning something (since after four years the stuff you learn is outdated anyway) but that students learn how to learn new stuff, so when one gets a job, a student knows how to keep up with technology. It's not that I got taught about MySQL, it was "This is your first project; make a prototype security door by soldering some components together to a CD-ROM drive, include some sencors, program the microcontroller, create administration software for it and attach it to a database. Acces cards are rfid chips, figure it, figure out how to secure it on the rfid level and database level. Also host the database. Go."
We do have a 'mediocre proffesion education' in my country that's all about getting certificate x, learn technique y, learn Cisco, but that's not what I'm doing. Hell MySQL was on the checklist of high school (along with Basic, lol).
I've never heared of the term trade school before, but that seems to be it. After getting a bachelor I can go to a (what you call) university and do a master (and skip the bachelor part). One the possibilities is in the area of Quantum computing, but I'm not sure if (aside from the fun aspect) I'm going to do that. It's expensive and possible the horror of overqualification.
What kind of a shitty university do you get these from? In my country (not the US), I'm not even halfway and already I had to learn:
1. Operating System design;
2. industrial processor assembly languages;
3. UML;
4. java;
5. C;
6. C++;
7. Processor designs;
8. Math;
9. Logic;
10. MySQL;
11. Unix and Windows networking;
12. Internet protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, etc);
13. Networking architecture (internet tiers, wireless networking, industrial ethernet, etc.)
14. Logic boards (breadboards, soldering, reading ARM specs and erreta's etc.)
15. Writing a Bluetooth device driver;
16. Game design (3D modeling, OpenGL, storyboarding, etc)
17. Professional skills (project management, documentation, etc.)
18. Optimizing algorythms;
19. Learning industrial processes;
20. What did I miss?
Sound like the level of eduation in your area sucks balls...
Yes, but trusted computing is not trusted security. Trusted computing means only executing sealed binaries if they haven't been tempored with. This, however, does not mean that it's secure. In fact, if there is a flaw in the sealed binary, you can trust that the flaw will be executed.
Trusted Computing is kind of confusing as it is not that much of a security mechanism as it is a DRM scheme. Therefore trust doesn't mean relience on something, that you can't secure, to work, for which you can do nothing but trust that it won't fail.
It's not true. It climbed to 600.000 infections, according to Kaspersky (anti-virus developper) and dropped to 30.000.
Anyone cautious of privacy and security should know that the OS isn't targetted so much anymore, because aside from it being illegal and a more fragmented market now, you can legally spy on people with tracking the web. The web is where all the action happens (Banking, Facebook, etc.). Seriously; install Collusion for Chrome or Firefox, lurk an hour on the web and see what's tracking you. It's insane.
So the new security is in web browsers. And anyone who values their web security has a coockie, script, plugin and TCP/IP domain blocker. And if you had the plugin blocker (disableing the autorun), you wouldn't have this drive-by hack.
But ofcourse even OpenBSD had remote holes, which proves that (and anyone arguing otherwise is an idiot) any OS is hackeable.
What's so funny (actually sad) about this, is that Trusted Computing doesn't protect against this shit. So much for that argument. Even with Gatekeeper (Mac OS X tool for allowing users to decide if they do or do not want to be able to execute non-sealed binaries (DRM'd/ Appstore stuff).
Inb4 fantards.
Times hundred reduction, means devide by hundred. Go back to highschool.
Meh... I want a server somewhere in my house, a TV sized screen in the living room, a tablet screen and a desktop screen.
All data Plan9 from Bell Labs style on the server (removeable harddrive slots with clone functionality for backup storing purposes when they get full and content goes on newer, larger and faster harddrive).
Apps in the form of GTK3/Qt HTMLv5 style, steamed over the home network/VPN and all local apps via Java/GNU Smalltalk (platform abstracted code, platform abstracted packages, OpenGL bindings plus touch and interface improved API's.
All local input and output devices with Bluetooth (cut the wires) with enhanced security, except for the printer.
That way the TV is a TV, console, cinema and home portal for ubiquitous household devices. The smartphone terminal is a remote, compas, phone, whatever. The tablet is for everything else replacing the last non-digital stuff (maps, boardgames, whatever) and the desktop is for development and other production stuff.
All should have EyeFinity/retena resolution and the desktop and TV should come with a logic module that you can replace with a new one (better SoC, newer networking/device interfaces, etc).
Done. Fuck remote cloud computing!
How about stopping the stupid cannabis war? Not only do you need about 33% of the current police force (I kid you not), but also there will be massive hippy protest to stop costly wars, saving even more.
Problem? I'm sure some cannabis smokers who get high before bedtime will totally bring evil to the world! (not)
And by default I'm guessing GCC? Don't know, but Apple used to include that in Mac OS X, untill GCC was released under the GPLv3, Apple stuck with that ever older GCC GPLv2 version and is developping Clang (I believe?) as a compiler frontend for LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine Jit compiler thing).
Well aside from an iPad, I don't own Apple products. I hate Apple products, but when I was in need of a tablet for setting up my own Cloud with a Linux box, and I was able to get one for free, why not?
I was googleing what the hell Airport was, stumbled upon an Apple page explaining the home network. Then I searched for routing capabilities, as no such thing was mentioned on that particular Apple page (they removed IPv6, so go figure) and then I stumbled upon a Mac forum in which someone asked if he/she could use Airport as a router with his modem, to which someone replied that it could be possible, implying that it's not actually supposed to be used for that.
I could have looked further, but didn't really like the braincell killing content of all the 'information' (stupid computernoob-talk) Google gave me, so I gave up. That's why said 'investigate', not investigate.
I was really puzzled about this, so I went to 'investigate' the issue a bit. Turns out Airport is not a router, but a sort of wireless switch (no modem). So this is probably another speed optimization as packets are 96bit smaller and your home network probably isn't filled with more than 4294967296 devices.
The first thing that comes to my mind is how in the hell this is going to work when you want to access the internet in such a configuration. The utility or physical Airport station probably converts this. I don't think Apple is that retarded...
Oh I like it. Let everyone lose over patent wars. Besides killing useless patent pools, they will at one point discover that patents hurt more than they bring to the table and this whole patent shithole can be sealed of.
I have been waiting for the big guys to start fighting this war and I'm enjoying it! Only this way free software and the small guys can shake of the patent hell, since talking and protesting didn't work.