You have obviously never worked on a serious project and you are obviously unaware of tools such as source repositories, with functionality such as versioning and branching functionality.
I bet your sources live on your hard-drive. At best, you might be using MS source-safe which is pretty limited in functionality.
> 100% of my thousands of failed SSH attempts come from > (Chinese) APNIC address space
I call bs on this and I have logs and automated complaint reports to prove it. Also, I have other additional means to deal with this issue.
There are compromised machines on every network, most of these attempts are done by botnets without the knowledge of the IP owner as I found exchanging with remote network admins. !;-))
Here is one report, I edited out my own IP for obvious reasons.
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:27:10 -0400 To: noc@psychz.net Subject: Report of abuse from one of your IP: 74.117.63.155
Hello,
An IP from your network is scanning one of our machine Culprit IP on YOUR network: 74.117.63.155 Victim IP on OUR network: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Here is the data used to file this abuse report:
% This is the CyberAbuse Whois v5.6
[ Informations about 74.117.63.155 ]
IP range : 74.117.56.0 - 74.117.63.255
Network name : PSYCHZ-NETWORKS
Infos : Psychz Networks
Infos : 20687-2 Amar Rd. #312
Infos : Walnut
Infos : CA
Infos : 91789
Country : United States (US)
Abuse E-mail : noc@psychz.net
Source : ARIN
No need to worry, this will be sorted out once she contacts me offline. I will ask her how much progress she had made so far with the Wii Fit, purely for diagnostic related reasons, of course.
Please contact me offline. Although I will be straight forward and admit right away that I can't cure you, I still have something that might help you live an happier life with the syndrome.
> none of them ever tell the truth or stick to campaign promises
I thought that you had to be elected in order to demonstrate that you do not "stick to campaign promises" and actually, only Steven Harper has actually ever got elected.
Jack Latyon's party, the NDP, has never formed the federal government in Canada. Michael Ignatieff's party, the liberals, has been elected before but never after one of Michael Ignatieff's campaign.
> Well, it's better than "Copyright Reform Party".
It could very well be since there was a "Reform Party" in Canada and people could view the name "Copyright Reform Party" as "Copyrighted Reform Party" or some kind of new version of the "Reform Party";-)))
> The various Pirate Parties achieved a relatively high participation from previously politically inactive people.
In Canada, the Rhinoceros Party targeted that very audience, they said it was better to vote for them than not voting at all because by voting for them, you clearly expressed that you did not believe in the political system.
> Not a lot, admittedly, but the fact of the matter is that I > generally just decide that I want a list of things to do > [whatever I'm actually thinking about],
Yep, you want to have everything quickly without planning and thinking long term. Chances are your code will be less easily maintainable. I simply use bash scripts for throw away code to do a job quickly. You seem to have a throw away code coder attitude.
> I don't understand your logic here at all. If anything, I'm > more likely to write more documentation when I'm writing > less code (to do the same thing), since I'm not all tired out > from typing. It's not like once I get my fingers flowing they > just keep typing on their own.
Indeed, you do not understand ! Nicely written Java code with meaningful variable names needs almost no documentation. The code self-document itself, this is the idea.
> Having to write less is only a minor argument, and is related > to being able to spew out your thoughts quickly - it's > annoying when your train of thought gets interrupted > because you're too busy typing lots of boilerplate crap.
You mean your thoughts are so clear that you need to write them right away in fear of forgetting them ? This seems illogical to me. It sounds like a music jam session, of course you ain't going to stop for thinking when you are jamming. Are you jamming when you write code ?
You could use bash scripts for everything then, do you begin to get the idea ?
Also, if you were fluent at Java, you would realize that with auto-complete and modern development tools, you can write Java code just as fast. (auto-imports etc..). As a bonus, modern tools will hint you when you do something that might be stupid so, at least you get a warning.
> More importantly, though, is that there is much less to read. > When I look at most Java code, it's difficult to quickly parse > what's going on, whereas a smaller language like Python or > Ruby tends to be much more easily grokkable. Note that > terseness is not everything, as Perl has proven.
Much less to read should obviously go with less self documented code.
Anyway, if you do not get it, chances are you never will, giving my past experiences with people bringing exactly the same arguments as you did. So let's keep our own opinions and respect each other anyways;-))
I haven't searched for one, I just cooked-up one, you need to enable telnet access from LAN on the Windows machine. This might be only available on server editions:
Note that I do not use that script to shutdown kid machines but to shutdown Windows hosts on power fail. For kids, education and teaching them how to take responsibilities might constitute a better approach.
> This should have gotten +5 insightful not +5 funny.
Actually, it seems like it got +2 funny +1 insightful.
There is still room for another moderation point since it only shows +5 on this thread because it has a +1 karma bonus point.
So, I suggest that you tell a friend of yours to mod an additional +1 insightful point to it and then you can be happy. The way the system works, it would now show +5 insightful.;-)))))
I was just thinking about this very fact. I was wondering if Sun was realizing the ship was slowly sinking and that that they made that move on purpose in order to assure that Java would live.
If so, they were really smart and kind.
I hear at some point, Sun had the highest concentration of smart people in its ranks compared to other entities in the same field. Of course, given my own perception, the smartness of the people has got nothing to do with economy which is basically based on perpetual growth for which the world should began to realize by now that it is impossible to achieve after a breaking point which we may or are soon to have reached occurs.
quoted from my own previous post: > I re-read my posts and I thought I stated this but I haven't: > "Of course all our speculations won't change the path that our > realty took."
I knew I must have done it, I posted on a top level post before replying to this thread and it sounds like what I was saying.
> You're looking at this through the rose-tinted glasses
I couldn't agree more with you but it is sometimes enjoyable to speculate. Who knows ? It might help us taking action in events that haven't occurred yet instead of proposing an alternate path for past events.
I re-read my posts and I thought I stated this but I haven't: "Of course all our speculations won't change the path that our realty took."
In short, it remains interesting thing to play the "what if" game in order to enhance our skills. Of course, people exclusively playing the "what if" game without porting the experience to actual decision making will remain perpetual losers.;-)
Of course Sun avoiding becoming bankrupt by some other financing means would have been preferable but faced with a buy-out, I think I would have preferred IBM too.
So my question to/. is this:
Are you and I the only ones who think IBM would have been better ?
Second corollary question, since my judgment might be altered by my own perception of both companies :
Am I the only one perceiving Oracle as more, so to speak, "evil" than IBM ?
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> Sounds more like the poster meant picture of what you're offering.
My diagnostic isn't completed yet so we can't tell yet if the we will be able to take a picture of the solution I will offer to solve her problem.
You have obviously never worked on a serious project and you are obviously unaware of tools such as source repositories, with functionality such as versioning and branching functionality.
I bet your sources live on your hard-drive. At best, you might be using MS source-safe which is pretty limited in functionality.
> 100% of my thousands of failed SSH attempts come from
> (Chinese) APNIC address space
I call bs on this and I have logs and automated complaint reports to prove it. Also, I have other additional means to deal with this issue.
There are compromised machines on every network, most of these attempts are done by botnets without the knowledge of the IP owner as I found exchanging with remote network admins. ! ;-))
Here is one report, I edited out my own IP for obvious reasons.
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:27:10 -0400
To: noc@psychz.net
Subject: Report of abuse from one of your IP: 74.117.63.155
Hello,
An IP from your network is scanning one of our machine
Culprit IP on YOUR network: 74.117.63.155
Victim IP on OUR network: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Here is the data used to file this abuse report:
% This is the CyberAbuse Whois v5.6
[ Informations about 74.117.63.155 ]
IP range : 74.117.56.0 - 74.117.63.255
Network name : PSYCHZ-NETWORKS
Infos : Psychz Networks
Infos : 20687-2 Amar Rd. #312
Infos : Walnut
Infos : CA
Infos : 91789
Country : United States (US)
Abuse E-mail : noc@psychz.net
Source : ARIN
% The CyberAbuse Whois
% Copyright 2003-2008, Philippe Bourcier
% http://www.cyberabuse.org/whois/
Here is our log file, note that timestamps are AMERICA/NEW YORK time:
74.117.63.155 count: 25 /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:35 java14 sshd[8147]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for unassigned.psychz.net [74.117.63.155] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:35 java14 sshd[8147]: Failed password for root from 74.117.63.155 port 47731 ssh2 /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:36 java14 sshd[8149]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for unassigned.psychz.net [74.117.63.155] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:36 java14 sshd[8149]: Failed password for root from 74.117.63.155 port 48844 ssh2 /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:37 java14 sshd[8151]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for unassigned.psychz.net [74.117.63.155] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:37 java14 sshd[8151]: Failed password for root from 74.117.63.155 port 49625 ssh2 /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:38 java14 sshd[8153]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for unassigned.psychz.net [74.117.63.155] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:38 java14 sshd[8153]: Failed password for root from 74.117.63.155 port 50247 ssh2 /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:39 java14 sshd[8155]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for unassigned.psychz.net [74.117.63.155] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:39 java14 sshd[8155]: Failed password for root from 74.117.63.155 port 50815 ssh2 /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:41 java14 sshd[8157]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for unassigned.psychz.net [74.117.63.155] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:41 java14 sshd[8157]: Failed password for root from 74.117.63.155 port 51462 ssh2 /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:43 java14 sshd[8159]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for unassigned.psychz.net [74.117.63.155] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:43 java14 sshd[8159]: Failed password for root from 74.117.63.155 port 52055 ssh2 /var/log/messages:Apr 13 15:11:43 java14 sshd[8161]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for unassigned.psychz.net [74.117.63.155] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! /var/log/messages:
No need to worry, this will be sorted out once she contacts me offline. I will ask her how much progress she had made so far with the Wii Fit, purely for diagnostic related reasons, of course.
> Single Amanda, 24, from Harpurhey, Manchester,
Dear Amanda,
Please contact me offline. Although I will be straight forward and admit right away that I can't cure you, I still have something that might help you live an happier life with the syndrome.
Truly yours,
> This patch almost certainly hasn't been tested as well as Sun would like
You do not have to release the latest and greatest if hasn't been tested enough for your taste.
Just branch from the last stable release and apply only the fix that is needed for security reasons. This is done all the time !
A patch to filter input parameters should be trivial enough to test ;-))
> meeting time has gone down from as much as 30 hours per week to as little as 2 hours per week
Bravo, Bravissimo. Many of us have been aware of time wasted on meetings for quite a while.
Let's be clear, planning is necessary and some meetings still might be needed. I guess almost everybody knows what I am talking about... ;-))
I am sure Dilbert hasn't got the monopoly on this topic but here are some links anyway...
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-11-23/
http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2001-12-15/
http://www.revold.no/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Dilbert_MeetingMadness.jpg
http://brontesaurus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dilbert-meeting.gif
http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/30000/1000/900/31967/31967.strip.gif
http://slcta.net/images/dilbert2007112223221.gif
> who is the bigger man?
Well, if one looks at the picture in the linked in TFA, it should be easy to answer... ;-))
> none of them ever tell the truth or stick to campaign promises
I thought that you had to be elected in order to demonstrate that you do not "stick to campaign promises" and actually, only Steven Harper has actually ever got elected.
Jack Latyon's party, the NDP, has never formed the federal government in Canada. Michael Ignatieff's party, the liberals, has been elected before but never after one of Michael Ignatieff's campaign.
> Well, it's better than "Copyright Reform Party".
It could very well be since there was a "Reform Party" in Canada and people could view the name "Copyright Reform Party" as "Copyrighted Reform Party" or some kind of new version of the "Reform Party" ;-)))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Party_of_Canada
> The various Pirate Parties achieved a relatively high participation from previously politically inactive people.
In Canada, the Rhinoceros Party targeted that very audience, they said it was better to vote for them than not voting at all because by voting for them, you clearly expressed that you did not believe in the political system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada
Note although that contrarily to the Rhinoceros Party, the Pirate Party might make campaign promises that could be fulfilled.
Nice reply ;-)
> Not a lot, admittedly, but the fact of the matter is that I
> generally just decide that I want a list of things to do
> [whatever I'm actually thinking about],
Yep, you want to have everything quickly without planning and thinking long term. Chances are your code will be less easily maintainable. I simply use bash scripts for throw away code to do a job quickly. You seem to have a throw away code coder attitude.
> I don't understand your logic here at all. If anything, I'm
> more likely to write more documentation when I'm writing
> less code (to do the same thing), since I'm not all tired out
> from typing. It's not like once I get my fingers flowing they
> just keep typing on their own.
Indeed, you do not understand ! Nicely written Java code with meaningful variable names needs almost no documentation. The code self-document itself, this is the idea.
> Having to write less is only a minor argument, and is related
> to being able to spew out your thoughts quickly - it's
> annoying when your train of thought gets interrupted
> because you're too busy typing lots of boilerplate crap.
You mean your thoughts are so clear that you need to write them right away in fear of forgetting them ? This seems illogical to me. It sounds like a music jam session, of course you ain't going to stop for thinking when you are jamming. Are you jamming when you write code ?
You could use bash scripts for everything then, do you begin to get the idea ?
Also, if you were fluent at Java, you would realize that with auto-complete and modern development tools, you can write Java code just as fast. (auto-imports etc..). As a bonus, modern tools will hint you when you do something that might be stupid so, at least you get a warning.
> More importantly, though, is that there is much less to read.
> When I look at most Java code, it's difficult to quickly parse
> what's going on, whereas a smaller language like Python or
> Ruby tends to be much more easily grokkable. Note that
> terseness is not everything, as Perl has proven.
Much less to read should obviously go with less self documented code.
Anyway, if you do not get it, chances are you never will, giving my past experiences with people bringing exactly the same arguments as you did. So let's keep our own opinions and respect each other anyways ;-))
I haven't searched for one, I just cooked-up one, you need to enable telnet access from LAN on the Windows machine. This might be only available on server editions:
(cat windowsshutdown-login.txt ; sleep 5 ; cat windowsshutdown-command.txt ) | /usr/bin/nc -t ${1} 23
$ cat windowsshutdown-login.txt
Administrator
password
$ cat windowsshutdown-command.txt
\shutdown\shutdown.exe
exit
Note that I do not use that script to shutdown kid machines but to shutdown Windows hosts on power fail. For kids, education and teaching them how to take responsibilities might constitute a better approach.
> This should have gotten +5 insightful not +5 funny.
Actually, it seems like it got +2 funny +1 insightful.
There is still room for another moderation point since it only shows +5 on this thread because it has a +1 karma bonus point.
So, I suggest that you tell a friend of yours to mod an additional +1 insightful point to it and then you can be happy. The way the system works, it would now show +5 insightful. ;-)))))
I used terms as "so to speak" and "perception altered"
"Second corollary question, since my judgment might be altered by my own perception of both companies :
Am I the only one perceiving Oracle as more, so to speak, "evil" than IBM ?"
Please buzz off.
For further enlightenment on the concepts you seem to defend so hard, please see my later post:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1613862&cid=31805100
Very good point !
I was just thinking about this very fact. I was wondering if Sun was realizing the ship was slowly sinking and that that they made that move on purpose in order to assure that Java would live.
If so, they were really smart and kind.
I hear at some point, Sun had the highest concentration of smart people in its ranks compared to other entities in the same field. Of course, given my own perception, the smartness of the people has got nothing to do with economy which is basically based on perpetual growth for which the world should began to realize by now that it is impossible to achieve after a breaking point which we may or are soon to have reached occurs.
quoted from my own previous post:
> I re-read my posts and I thought I stated this but I haven't:
> "Of course all our speculations won't change the path that our
> realty took."
I knew I must have done it, I posted on a top level post before replying to this thread and it sounds like what I was saying.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1613862&cid=31804364&art_pos=5
> You're looking at this through the rose-tinted glasses
I couldn't agree more with you but it is sometimes enjoyable to speculate. Who knows ? It might help us taking action in events that haven't occurred yet instead of proposing an alternate path for past events.
I re-read my posts and I thought I stated this but I haven't:
"Of course all our speculations won't change the path that our realty took."
In short, it remains interesting thing to play the "what if" game in order to enhance our skills. Of course, people exclusively playing the "what if" game without porting the experience to actual decision making will remain perpetual losers. ;-)
Parent is very informative, please take action !
Hey thanks ;-)
A little rude but I enjoy arguments, not only in my methods ;-))
I also like playing the devil's advocate.
This is becoming interesting, let's wait a little bit and see what others have to say.
> IBM probably would have been a better suitor
This is interesting and I am tempted to agree.
Of course Sun avoiding becoming bankrupt by some other financing means would have been preferable but faced with a buy-out, I think I would have preferred IBM too.
So my question to /. is this:
Are you and I the only ones who think IBM would have been better ?
Second corollary question, since my judgment might be altered by my own perception of both companies :
Am I the only one perceiving Oracle as more, so to speak, "evil" than IBM ?
Farewell sir,
The reasons why you left are now up to speculations and it could turn out insightful in understanding the direction former Sun products will take.
This is worse that I thought, further research reveals that : ;-)
In their default configurations:
1) Firefox prompt you with a dialog similar to "open file abc.exe". ;-))
2) IE8 opens the unsigned application right away without prompting. ;-((
http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javawebstart/demos.html
Also Web Start use some sandboxing, but I have trusted it since I have never looked it up ;-))
Well, my own custom browser that I designed and that I use uses a VM (I chose VMware) for every tab, I find it even more secure that way ;-))
It seems like Slashdot has been hit hit by China.
If I try:
http://slashdot.org/firehose
or
http://slashdot.org/~ls671/
I have been getting this for the past half hour:
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:
XID: 147127282289
Varnish