"net pioneer", arguable. I think all of us from back then think we were net pioneers. Maybe 'homesteaders' (I'm not going to argue for 'early settlers' with the *real* old guys).
Not even. You could just check out the last revision checked in on the due date. Subsequent revisions wouldn't even matter.
You should give them a tag to copy to (v1.0rc?) and try to check that out for the due date, if there isn't one, check out the trunk for the due date, but mark them down for that. Please teach them to use trunk/branch/tag.
They sent a recruiting email to myself and some of my friends -- some of the top students at the top CS school in the country -- asking if we were interested in coming to work on the Solaris kernel full-time; they were pretty much collectively told, "After what you did to Sun? No way."
Unfortunately, I guess that your insightful feedback won't make it up the chain. All that Oracle HR will report is the number of new hires (and there will be some) that campaign made. They won't be top-class, on the whole (my opinon for the same reason you gave for flipping them the bird), and the Sun exodus will continue...
Please, if there's anybody out there who's considering sticking with Sun (ie the Sun products continued within Oracle) please speak up - I really need some pros to even make it worth while totting up the increasing number of cons.
It does, kind of. You can even get the Lightning plugin and get come calender functionality. But it still has no where near the abilities of Outlook when it comes to interfacing with the exchange server, seeing other people's public calendars, dealing with the various types of meeting invites exchange sends,
Invites, calendars, all work fine, integrated tightly with thunderbird. I dunno what you're doing with your 2GB of email (POP?) but my muli-gigs have always worked fine over IMAP.
When I hand my phone to someone, I watch what their doing. It's as simple as that.
OK, that wasn't my point, but I'd still argue that you couldn't spot a street artist slipping a cable into your phone (though you'd not be the type to hand it over). I'm not in an argument with you. I honestly don't know if you can root smartphones just by squirting set commands over the cable. I was asking you, since you do know about this. Is it true - there's nothing you need to know about the phone (eg serial no.) to root it?
One thing I do disagree with you is about the value of rooting a single phone. What's the value of stealing a single CC? Yet it's done all the time. With the increase in commercial transactions from phones, the value of having a rooted phone controlled by a bot will be as high, if not higher than CC details. You could sniff & relay CC details from a rooted phone (just intercept the keypad input).
The only way to 'get root' on many of these devices is to attach a cable to the phone, invoke a special command to get a root shell, and only then can things be mucked with, by using a unix command shell.
Sorry, I don't know anything about how this is done...
Does the phone screen ask you anything during this process? Does it indicate anything? If not (or even so, if you can be distracted whilst it's happening), does this mean that people are vulnerable to a social attack?
"Wow, cool phone, can I have a look?"
[slips cable into phone, device on other end of cable roots the phone]
"...wow, that's nice, thanks!"
If anybody thinks somebody couldn't slip a cable into the phone without being noticed, you've not watched many con artists / prestidigitators at work (and competent ones are common)
If it hasn't happened already, when people start getting warned "don't give your phone to anybody, even for a second", remember you saw it here first!
I read an interesting article in a mainstream magazine about Air Force drone pilots. Basically, they sit in Nevada and control drones in Afghanistan. I was expecting to read about how jaded and eager they were to press buttons at the drop of the hat, but what I found was the opposite
In an Air Force PR arranged piece in a mainstream magazine? Color me amazed.
In the process, they are able to ascertain with frightening accuracy that yes, this particular man is a terrorist: Here's the video feed of him buying some weapons, and here's the part X hours later where we just watched him create a roadside IED. Being able to keep someone under direct video surveillance (including thermal, if I recall correctly, so being indoors didn't help a lot) meant that for at least some targets, they were very sure that that person was a bad guy.
Which is why they never blow up wedding parties (where if they had 10% of the capability you outline would be dead obvious) mistaking them for insurgent get-togethers! Oh wait...
This is the question I was going to ask. I'm sure that a lot of sounds in other languages are just noise to an english-centric codec. Bruce has replied to you that "The basic assumptions are based on the mechanics of the vocal tract" but I'm wondering if that means vocal cord frequency range + some sibilants.
Sorry Bruce if I'm jumping to conclusions. I'll test Codec2 for Welsh compatibility!
If the summary is correct, and the book is actually published (nevermind if the Pentagon magically buys all copies) it will be deposited at the Library of Congress (the US's only Copyright Library, unless I'm mistaken - we have 5 UK Copyright Libraries, including one outside the UK). Go read it there and post the contents (in your own words, other than where fair dealing/use allow).
STATE QUESTION - "RED or GREEN" In 1996, the New Mexico State Legislature passed a House Joint Memorial declaring "Red or Green?" as the official state question. This refers to the question always asked whether one prefers red or green chile when ordering New Mexican cuisine. This measure was passed to signify the importance that the chile industry has on the economy of the state.
I can usually get an idea of skill level by talking to people, but occasionally people are just good talkers. So I have a coding test. I give them a simple set of requirements and set them down in front of an IDE and have them write an application.
I realise that I'm replying weeks late, and that nobody will read this, but I'd just like to support your point. I interview for about 3 junior developer posts a year, and shortlist those who appear to meet the requirements. I add a paper pseudocode exercise that shouldn't tax anybody who makes the shortlist and I'm continually suprised how many are totally stumped by it. Anybody who takes the CV (US: resume) at face value should take note.
While I was waiting to get helicoptered out (you can hike ten miles, or fly, there are no roads) after my girlfriend twisted her ankle, I got to watch for three hours as the locals flew in from their shopping trips. I do not remember a single one who was not obese. Most were morbidly obese. And the crap they were getting off the helicopter was, well, crap.
Maybe you were just watching the lazy helicoper members of the tribe? Could it be that you saw the richest, "spoiltest" (is that a word?) members? Presumably with the other tribes you didn't hang about the helipad?
Telford? You have my sympathy. I live about 30 years distant (in a good way) in Aberystwyth. But still, a Big Hi from a Slashdotter in your neck of the woods (albeit posted from Bangor, tonight). My flippant remark was no response to your insightful post, I agree with your point that geek satisfaction isn't confined to traditional ICT roles.
Grahame Green used this in his novel Brighton Rock (read it, the film's well worth watching as well). Newspapers used this as a marketing gimmick waaay back. "You are and I claim my five pounds" was a usenet catchphrase a back in the day (AICMFP).
Because this one will be a distro backed by the marketing clout and the manpower of a 125-billion-dollar corporation. Who have clout with OEMs and governments. Who have enough drones for programming a decent printer driver or providing non-snarky support.
You mentioned the one thing that nobody else (browsing at 2+) got: this is going to be linux distro that will have to support all printers, as google have the muscle that has been missing in other linux distro vendors. Unless google create a new printing system, or sell a notebook OS that can't print to most people's printers, the printer vendors will be forced to play along and supply linux printer drivers. I can't see google (with their cash and clout) release an OS for notebooks that has a "(limited) supported printer list" - if they go for this for real, then linux suddenly has that OEM muscle that's always been lacking.
Webcams, wifi etc. probably won't benefit as much, as they tend to be builtin, but if google seriously want to release a mass-market OS, we'll suddenly see a huge improvement in linux printer drivers, even if google have to pay the OEMs for it.
For anyone who might be contemplating deploying FF I'd say "Yes - you can use your well-known Windows management tools such as SCCM and GPOs to deploy and manage Firefox. All the settings, configuration etc are very well-documented.".
You're kidding me, right? We do GPO-deployed FF, for many righteous reasons, but to pretend that it's well-documented is a joke. We've done it by scraping together many googled out-of-date pages, together with frontmotion's may-not-be-there-tomorrow's releases. FF needs to step up and make this stuff mainstream. FF has many great centralized features (getting config from LDAP, lockprefs, etc) but don't pretend it's a cakewalk.
I cannot even begin to comprehend the thinking behind the idea that taxpayers should be funding anyone's second home. I find it incomprehensible that everyone is arguing about the semantics of first vs second home, without even taking a second to think about the fundamental principle.
There's a very good reason for MPs allowances for 2nd homes. Before any such allowances, only rich people could be MPs - most represent constituencies far from London, and parliament sits in London. Take away any provision for paying for a London base during the week and you immediately remove most people from being able to represent their community in Parliament.
UK politicians aren't like the US - their expenses aren't funded by their parties. Yes, there's been terrible abuses exposed in this affair, but still *most* MPs have been shown to claim for nothing more than the expense of having to have a London base in addition to where they live.
Without the 2nd home expense, we'd regress to having no MPs except the independently wealthy. Not that MPs salaries aren't generous compared to the average, but anybody would be hard pressed to keep a London base and travel back & forth to a family home in outer constituencies (ie, a good share of them) without recompense.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Otherwise we'd be back to only 'gentlemen MPs' which we got rid of some 40 years ago. I've known a couple of local MPs, and they're local people, shopping in the same local shops as me, approachable on the street, connected to local people. Without the support of expenses, they'd never been able to afford to represent their consistency in Parliament. (not one of the big 3 parties, but even in that case, you don't want to limit yourself to independently wealthy MPs)
[ps - I've tried and tried to get spacing between paragraphs on this post, but nothing seems to work. Apologies]
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I know of one large bank that got rid of 30,000 desktop machines in favor of 10,000 racked servers and KMS services.
Please say you meant 1,000 servers. Like check with the bank if you're not 100% sure.
Shirky's no "Net Pioneer", he's a hack burped up by the "Silicon Alley" ripoffs central to what caused the .com Bubble to collapse.
Bzzt. Clay Shirky was around (and understood the internet as it was then) a lot before you claim he was a hack.
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=+author:shirky&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=1994&as_drrb=b&sitesearch=&sa=N&start=90
"net pioneer", arguable. I think all of us from back then think we were net pioneers. Maybe 'homesteaders' (I'm not going to argue for 'early settlers' with the *real* old guys).
Not even. You could just check out the last revision checked in on the due date. Subsequent revisions wouldn't even matter.
You should give them a tag to copy to (v1.0rc?) and try to check that out for the due date, if there isn't one, check out the trunk for the due date, but mark them down for that. Please teach them to use trunk/branch/tag.
They sent a recruiting email to myself and some of my friends -- some of the top students at the top CS school in the country -- asking if we were interested in coming to work on the Solaris kernel full-time; they were pretty much collectively told, "After what you did to Sun? No way."
Unfortunately, I guess that your insightful feedback won't make it up the chain. All that Oracle HR will report is the number of new hires (and there will be some) that campaign made. They won't be top-class, on the whole (my opinon for the same reason you gave for flipping them the bird), and the Sun exodus will continue...
Please, if there's anybody out there who's considering sticking with Sun (ie the Sun products continued within Oracle) please speak up - I really need some pros to even make it worth while totting up the increasing number of cons.
Man, he was born in Birmingham. Don't tell me that it comes as any surprise to anybody in the UK that he has neanderthal genes.
It does, kind of. You can even get the Lightning plugin and get come calender functionality. But it still has no where near the abilities of Outlook when it comes to interfacing with the exchange server, seeing other people's public calendars, dealing with the various types of meeting invites exchange sends,
Try it with SOGo - http://www.sogo.nu/
Invites, calendars, all work fine, integrated tightly with thunderbird. I dunno what you're doing with your 2GB of email (POP?) but my muli-gigs have always worked fine over IMAP.
When I hand my phone to someone, I watch what their doing. It's as simple as that.
OK, that wasn't my point, but I'd still argue that you couldn't spot a street artist slipping a cable into your phone (though you'd not be the type to hand it over). I'm not in an argument with you. I honestly don't know if you can root smartphones just by squirting set commands over the cable. I was asking you, since you do know about this. Is it true - there's nothing you need to know about the phone (eg serial no.) to root it?
One thing I do disagree with you is about the value of rooting a single phone. What's the value of stealing a single CC? Yet it's done all the time. With the increase in commercial transactions from phones, the value of having a rooted phone controlled by a bot will be as high, if not higher than CC details. You could sniff & relay CC details from a rooted phone (just intercept the keypad input).
I didn't write it, but it's well worth a read.
Well if wazoox didn't write it, it can't be worth reading...
The only way to 'get root' on many of these devices is to attach a cable to the phone, invoke a special command to get a root shell, and only then can things be mucked with, by using a unix command shell.
Sorry, I don't know anything about how this is done...
Does the phone screen ask you anything during this process? Does it indicate anything? If not (or even so, if you can be distracted whilst it's happening), does this mean that people are vulnerable to a social attack?
"Wow, cool phone, can I have a look?"
[slips cable into phone, device on other end of cable roots the phone]
"...wow, that's nice, thanks!"
If anybody thinks somebody couldn't slip a cable into the phone without being noticed, you've not watched many con artists / prestidigitators at work (and competent ones are common)
If it hasn't happened already, when people start getting warned "don't give your phone to anybody, even for a second", remember you saw it here first!
Do you want to fix the "it was not cheep" as well, or is this an internet meme I've missed?
Your MAC doesn't get to the internet. Learn a bit about routing.
I read an interesting article in a mainstream magazine about Air Force drone pilots. Basically, they sit in Nevada and control drones in Afghanistan. I was expecting to read about how jaded and eager they were to press buttons at the drop of the hat, but what I found was the opposite
In an Air Force PR arranged piece in a mainstream magazine? Color me amazed.
In the process, they are able to ascertain with frightening accuracy that yes, this particular man is a terrorist: Here's the video feed of him buying some weapons, and here's the part X hours later where we just watched him create a roadside IED. Being able to keep someone under direct video surveillance (including thermal, if I recall correctly, so being indoors didn't help a lot) meant that for at least some targets, they were very sure that that person was a bad guy.
Which is why they never blow up wedding parties (where if they had 10% of the capability you outline would be dead obvious) mistaking them for insurgent get-togethers! Oh wait...
This is the question I was going to ask. I'm sure that a lot of sounds in other languages are just noise to an english-centric codec. Bruce has replied to you that "The basic assumptions are based on the mechanics of the vocal tract" but I'm wondering if that means vocal cord frequency range + some sibilants.
Sorry Bruce if I'm jumping to conclusions. I'll test Codec2 for Welsh compatibility!
If the summary is correct, and the book is actually published (nevermind if the Pentagon magically buys all copies) it will be deposited at the Library of Congress (the US's only Copyright Library, unless I'm mistaken - we have 5 UK Copyright Libraries, including one outside the UK). Go read it there and post the contents (in your own words, other than where fair dealing/use allow).
Copyright Libraries: Use Them or Lose Them!
[yes, I do work for a Copyright Library]
Yes, New Mexico has a State question.
I *had* to google this.
From the New Mexico Blue Book 2007–2008. New Mexico Secretary of State. http://www.sos.state.nm.us/BlueBook2008/StateSymbols.pdf
STATE QUESTION - "RED or GREEN"
In 1996, the New Mexico State Legislature passed a House Joint Memorial declaring "Red or Green?" as the official state question. This refers to the question always asked whether one prefers red or green chile when ordering New Mexican cuisine. This measure was passed to signify the importance that the chile industry has on the economy of the state.
I can usually get an idea of skill level by talking to people, but occasionally people are just good talkers. So I have a coding test. I give them a simple set of requirements and set them down in front of an IDE and have them write an application.
I realise that I'm replying weeks late, and that nobody will read this, but I'd just like to support your point. I interview for about 3 junior developer posts a year, and shortlist those who appear to meet the requirements. I add a paper pseudocode exercise that shouldn't tax anybody who makes the shortlist and I'm continually suprised how many are totally stumped by it. Anybody who takes the CV (US: resume) at face value should take note.
While I was waiting to get helicoptered out (you can hike ten miles, or fly, there are no roads) after my girlfriend twisted her ankle, I got to watch for three hours as the locals flew in from their shopping trips. I do not remember a single one who was not obese. Most were morbidly obese. And the crap they were getting off the helicopter was, well, crap.
Maybe you were just watching the lazy helicoper members of the tribe? Could it be that you saw the richest, "spoiltest" (is that a word?) members? Presumably with the other tribes you didn't hang about the helipad?
Mod up to the max, please!
I'm so happy that somebody's still reading Feynman.
Can we make him compulsory for /.? If you haven't read him, do so, you'll enjoy it. I guarantee it.
Telford? You have my sympathy. I live about 30 years distant (in a good way) in Aberystwyth. But still, a Big Hi from a Slashdotter in your neck of the woods (albeit posted from Bangor, tonight). My flippant remark was no response to your insightful post, I agree with your point that geek satisfaction isn't confined to traditional ICT roles.
I mainly work on servicing/maintenance on commercial/industrial heating and ventilation systems and see some incredibly cool tech every day.
Here in Mid Wales? Cripes. Do we have any commerce or industry? (I joke, I joke)
For all of those saying "It's been done before", can I direct you to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Lud
&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Rock_(novel)
Grahame Green used this in his novel Brighton Rock (read it, the film's well worth watching as well). Newspapers used this as a marketing gimmick waaay back. "You are and I claim my five pounds" was a usenet catchphrase a back in the day (AICMFP).
Bah, I feel old now.
Because this one will be a distro backed by the marketing clout and the manpower of a 125-billion-dollar corporation. Who have clout with OEMs and governments. Who have enough drones for programming a decent printer driver or providing non-snarky support.
You mentioned the one thing that nobody else (browsing at 2+) got: this is going to be linux distro that will have to support all printers, as google have the muscle that has been missing in other linux distro vendors. Unless google create a new printing system, or sell a notebook OS that can't print to most people's printers, the printer vendors will be forced to play along and supply linux printer drivers. I can't see google (with their cash and clout) release an OS for notebooks that has a "(limited) supported printer list" - if they go for this for real, then linux suddenly has that OEM muscle that's always been lacking.
Webcams, wifi etc. probably won't benefit as much, as they tend to be builtin, but if google seriously want to release a mass-market OS, we'll suddenly see a huge improvement in linux printer drivers, even if google have to pay the OEMs for it.
For anyone who might be contemplating deploying FF I'd say "Yes - you can use your well-known Windows management tools such as SCCM and GPOs to deploy and manage Firefox. All the settings, configuration etc are very well-documented.".
You're kidding me, right? We do GPO-deployed FF, for many righteous reasons, but to pretend that it's well-documented is a joke. We've done it by scraping together many googled out-of-date pages, together with frontmotion's may-not-be-there-tomorrow's releases. FF needs to step up and make this stuff mainstream. FF has many great centralized features (getting config from LDAP, lockprefs, etc) but don't pretend it's a cakewalk.
[ps - I've tried and tried to get spacing between paragraphs on this post, but nothing seems to work. Apologies]
OK, In preview there was no spacing, but after posting, there was.
I cannot even begin to comprehend the thinking behind the idea that taxpayers should be funding anyone's second home. I find it incomprehensible that everyone is arguing about the semantics of first vs second home, without even taking a second to think about the fundamental principle.
There's a very good reason for MPs allowances for 2nd homes. Before any such allowances, only rich people could be MPs - most represent constituencies far from London, and parliament sits in London. Take away any provision for paying for a London base during the week and you immediately remove most people from being able to represent their community in Parliament.
UK politicians aren't like the US - their expenses aren't funded by their parties. Yes, there's been terrible abuses exposed in this affair, but still *most* MPs have been shown to claim for nothing more than the expense of having to have a London base in addition to where they live.
Without the 2nd home expense, we'd regress to having no MPs except the independently wealthy. Not that MPs salaries aren't generous compared to the average, but anybody would be hard pressed to keep a London base and travel back & forth to a family home in outer constituencies (ie, a good share of them) without recompense.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Otherwise we'd be back to only 'gentlemen MPs' which we got rid of some 40 years ago. I've known a couple of local MPs, and they're local people, shopping in the same local shops as me, approachable on the street, connected to local people. Without the support of expenses, they'd never been able to afford to represent their consistency in Parliament. (not one of the big 3 parties, but even in that case, you don't want to limit yourself to independently wealthy MPs)
[ps - I've tried and tried to get spacing between paragraphs on this post, but nothing seems to work. Apologies]