Can I safly upgrade my computer to it (the one that all my school work is done on and that I am codependt on) or sould I stay with 2.2.... for a bit longer. if any has tryeded to please let me know.
What we need is for users to demand it and for developers to write for it. Then will all (real) system start to stick to standers, the problem here is that when a company deravates for the standers some developers start to use them then you are stuck.
You know you sond like some people I deal with over at http://bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/msnbc-scitech/index.asp but the diff is that they say the same about linux. A new OS is a good thing it put more new and cool ideas into the life blood of the industry and forces every one to inovate better, in the long run it is always good to have more choices.
What wrong with that, 8 years ago Linux was in the same position, now look at it, it has the backing of many companys, a user base that in the 10's of millions. Give it some time it might just be a great system in a few year, then again maybe not ( I no furtun teller)
As of now I think my goals have change a great deal in the past few years. Right now I think I like to do some work on back engines (the guts of the program) I don't care much for the UI of a program (yes I can do UIs, I like the FLTK toolkit for my UIs) also I think I like to go on with my education and maybe teach others to program (I just think that sounds like fun, I am a TA now and I like it)
Ya I know, exponital time to crack RSA. but I think that is beside the point I was trying to make. What I was trying to say (I guess I did not do to well) is that the goverment wants to be able to evdrops and they will limit how high you go for security (remeber the V chip and how they wanted all of the keys)
Here in the states it is still illegale to use encryption above a so many bits (I think it is 128 but I am not sure) why do you think we do not see 500 bit encryption, it is not because it to slow (heck my P133 can generat the numbers and key in 17 secs and do the work (both encrypt and decrypt) in as reported by the time function 0 secs, heck for fun I once tryed a 5000bit encytion program I wrote, 15hours (on a P133) to generat the numbers and keys, still (as reported by the time funciton) 0 secs to both encryt and decryt.
I use linux because it is the best, but I do not have a problem buying software, in fact the other day I droped ~$100 for Corel Office 2000 because I felt that they had a beter spreed sheat then I have found for my Linux box.
Good luck with this, I hope you win in this case, but one thing I have hear that ms dose (even if it dose not have a real case) is to sue over and over again untill the oponte is out of money, so what I think should be done is a fund put up for people who wish to donate some money to you for the fight agains ms to send it to.
I would love to get a Voice reconition program for linux, The reason is that I have a hard time spelling due to a LD (the way that I got the LD was that when I was born I was deaf for the frist 3 years of my life, because of this I missed the language development that most other people get to have). It would be nice to beable to train the computer to my speach patern and have it do the typeing when I have to write a report for a class.
I am glad to see that, being a TA here at the university of Pittsburgh for CS401 Intro to Computer Science where we teach them to program in C++ and we use Bordland in the CS computer lab (I wish they would move to linux & gnu cc ) and we requier the sturdents to hand in not only the program but also the source (which in turn gread on my linux hox at home)
add the password opption, this will ask for a password when ever you try to boot a diffent option then default. next you make shour root ownes the file then chmod 700 on it. that way a user can not see the password (this is important since the password in the lilo.conf file is not encrypted)
I have done this on my system.
also you can set the boot delay to 0, but this is only to be done if you will never boot in a diffent mode (yes both can be over come with a boot disk, but you know what they say once you have physical access to a system security gose out the window)
I concur, I like the printed manual a lot, usually what happens when I get an electronic form of a manual is that I end up printing it up and taking it down to kinkos where it costs me 5.08 to get it bound (I print it up at school where I have a sizable print quota, I paid for it so I am going to use it)
I have a question on the following statement from the artical: "It offers incentives (caps, T-shirts, cash) to students who call a toll-free number and anonymously turn in classmates they believe to be depressed or dangerous. " How can you get the incentives if you do it anonymously, how would they know who to give it to. So is that not a contradiction?
OK, I e-mailed them and got this responce back " Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - I was out sick, and just got your message this morning. We are airing "Code Rush" on Sunday, April 9 at 5pm. Thank you for your interest in WQED. "
Hay based on your post I decied to call WQED, because the listing was for East Coast PBS (i.e. general.) when I called the women at the other end of the line did in affect that you were right the are not airing it "tonight" but I could call back tomorrow and get infomation on when they will air it. oh well I was wrong, but I going to try to tune in out of state PBS, I know I can get WV PBS on the tuner. Also if you want to call WQED, I was told I could call back tomorrow and get when they are airing it, their Phone number is (412)622-1300 and their fax number is (412)622-1488, why the hell can they not air the same stuff rest of the east coast PBS is listed for. It would make it easy when people look at the tv listings and get just general list for larger areas.
I will be on at 10:00 PM Here is the entre from tvguide.com Silicon Valley code writers struggle to meet a deadline to debug Netscape's ?source code? for browsing the Internet in this documentary, taped in 1998 and '99 (around the time of the company's acquisition by AOL) at Netscape's offices in Mountain View, Cal. The task, says narrator Jim Pappademas, is ?a precarious balance of science and art.? And energy helps. As one staffer puts it, he and his colleagues ?don't need food and don't need sleep.? But, he adds wryly, ?they'll take pay.? Rating: TV-G Category: Other, documentary Release Year: 2000 Date Time Channel Thu 30 10:00 PM PBS PBS Good it will not interfere with my star trek (11)
AS once asked of me in one of my accounting classes. "If you bought the hienz company and you had to pay extra for the name -- would you do so?" The teacher said that the anser is yes because it is a name that people will buy. Names are one of the most valuable assets in bussness, so what is a name worth... well about 5 to 10 times the price of the company alone.
We would need a less geeky name (yes I know we all love slashdot, or segfault, I love to see the GNU party) but if we were to even remotly hope for any public support we would need a name for the party that would get evey our dads in on it, lets "People for a free America" that would work, it has the words Joe Idiot would beable to understand and then once we get the support of the average person we can try to spoon feed them the issues, the average american know nothing about technologhy or of polotics, heck we the geek have enoph trouble with polotics, take for instance what I learned in my Poly Sci class last term. Our goverment (that of the US, sorry to discrimate agains those of you who are outside of the US) is set up so that it moves sloly on the issues, it forces poloticions to "log roll" (i.e. you skratch my back I scratch yours) and to cut dealts. The professor said that the ideas in the founding fathers heads were not realy to give the power to the people compleatly but to filter it, so that here is what they thought of. The people will electe a group of electors, and that the electors would pick the leaders, (i.e. vote for the voters) We still see this today in the presidental elections, you don't vote for the president you just vote for people who have pleaged to vote for that person (they can always turn around and vote for some one else, but he said that that is very unlikly to happen since the partys pick very faithful people to the party) also he showed how the system is desinde to whast votes, all a canidates electors need to get the state is one more vote then the others, and it is as if every one in the state voted for that one, the other votes are ignored because if you carry a state you get all of the electors for that state, and each state has a diffent number of electors based on the population,(i.e. CA is more inportant than RI)
Since we are on the subject of Linux jobs, I was wondering if those of you who have gone before use who are still in collage could tell us what you think should go on a resume. I am being told to put the following on: Courses taken, education(what collage and greaduation date [expected]) work experience, computing experience, interests and activities, awards and places that I have been (i.e other countrys). Also I have put on programs that I have writen and were they are loacated. My question is, is that to much, what will a propective Linux job oppotunity be looking at. anything that would be needed. I am no thinking about this stuff now that I am in my 3rd year of collage and expect to be graduating next year, I am looking at a BS in CS.
I think that yes the security of the Linux box will keep 75%+ of the Linux box safe (the other 25%+ are the people who do everything for root, this might be a exaduation) but the real danger is to the users accounts, not all of them only one at a time. because if you do get a virus all it can do is delete files that belong to the user and that the user have sufficiant rights to, other wise you will get a error, this will also help to id the virus and so that the "victim"/discover of the virus can let other people know about it.
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Can I safly upgrade my computer to it (the one that all my school work is done on and that I am codependt on) or sould I stay with 2.2.... for a bit longer. if any has tryeded to please let me know.
What we need is for users to demand it and for developers to write for it. Then will all (real) system start to stick to standers, the problem here is that when a company deravates for the standers some developers start to use them then you are stuck.
You know you sond like some people I deal with over at http://bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/msnbc-scitech/index.asp but the diff is that they say the same about linux. A new OS is a good thing it put more new and cool ideas into the life blood of the industry and forces every one to inovate better, in the long run it is always good to have more choices.
What wrong with that, 8 years ago Linux was in the same position, now look at it, it has the backing of many companys, a user base that in the 10's of millions. Give it some time it might just be a great system in a few year, then again maybe not ( I no furtun teller)
As of now I think my goals have change a great deal in the past few years. Right now I think I like to do some work on back engines (the guts of the program) I don't care much for the UI of a program (yes I can do UIs, I like the FLTK toolkit for my UIs) also I think I like to go on with my education and maybe teach others to program (I just think that sounds like fun, I am a TA now and I like it)
Ya I know, exponital time to crack RSA. but I think that is beside the point I was trying to make. What I was trying to say (I guess I did not do to well) is that the goverment wants to be able to evdrops and they will limit how high you go for security (remeber the V chip and how they wanted all of the keys)
I was not talking about password (I guess I sould have mentined it) I was talking about RSA public Key encryption, sorry about not saying that.
Here in the states it is still illegale to use encryption above a so many bits (I think it is 128 but I am not sure) why do you think we do not see 500 bit encryption, it is not because it to slow (heck my P133 can generat the numbers and key in 17 secs and do the work (both encrypt and decrypt) in as reported by the time function 0 secs, heck for fun I once tryed a 5000bit encytion program I wrote, 15hours (on a P133) to generat the numbers and keys, still (as reported by the time funciton) 0 secs to both encryt and decryt.
I use linux because it is the best, but I do not have a problem buying software, in fact the other day I droped ~$100 for Corel Office 2000 because I felt that they had a beter spreed sheat then I have found for my Linux box.
Good luck with this, I hope you win in this case, but one thing I have hear that ms dose (even if it dose not have a real case) is to sue over and over again untill the oponte is out of money, so what I think should be done is a fund put up for people who wish to donate some money to you for the fight agains ms to send it to.
I would love to get a Voice reconition program for linux, The reason is that I have a hard time spelling due to a LD (the way that I got the LD was that when I was born I was deaf for the frist 3 years of my life, because of this I missed the language development that most other people get to have). It would be nice to beable to train the computer to my speach patern and have it do the typeing when I have to write a report for a class.
I am glad to see that, being a TA here at the university of Pittsburgh for CS401 Intro to Computer Science where we teach them to program in C++ and we use Bordland in the CS computer lab (I wish they would move to linux & gnu cc ) and we requier the sturdents to hand in not only the program but also the source (which in turn gread on my linux hox at home)
add the password opption, this will ask for a password when ever you try to boot a diffent option then default.
next you make shour root ownes the file then chmod 700 on it. that way a user can not see the password (this is important since the password in the lilo.conf file is not encrypted)
I have done this on my system.
also you can set the boot delay to 0, but this is only to be done if you will never boot in a diffent mode (yes both can be over come with a boot disk, but you know what they say once you have physical access to a system security gose out the window)
I concur, I like the printed manual a lot, usually what happens when I get an electronic form of a
manual is that I end up printing it up and taking it down to kinkos where it costs me 5.08 to get
it bound (I print it up at school where I have a sizable print quota, I paid for it so I am
going to use it)
I have a question on the following statement from the artical: "It offers incentives (caps, T-shirts, cash) to students who call a toll-free number and anonymously turn in classmates they believe to be depressed or dangerous. " How can you get the incentives if you do it anonymously, how would they know who to give it to. So is that not a contradiction?
OK, I e-mailed them and got this responce back " Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - I was out sick, and just got your message this morning. We are airing "Code Rush" on Sunday, April 9 at 5pm. Thank you for your interest in WQED. "
Hay based on your post I decied to call WQED, because the listing was for East Coast PBS (i.e. general.) when I called the women at the other end of the line did in affect that you were right the are not airing it "tonight" but I could call back tomorrow and get infomation on when they will air it. oh well I was wrong, but I going to try to tune in out of state PBS, I know I can get WV PBS on the tuner. Also if you want to call WQED, I was told I could call back tomorrow and get when they are airing it, their Phone number is (412)622-1300 and their fax number is (412)622-1488, why the hell can they not air the same stuff rest of the east coast PBS is listed for. It would make it easy when people look at the tv listings and get just general list for larger areas.
Yes I just cut and pasted it, I gave my zip code (15017) and it is in the enter of "Code Rush"
I will be on at 10:00 PM Here is the entre from tvguide.com Silicon Valley code writers struggle to meet a deadline to debug Netscape's ?source code? for browsing the Internet in this documentary, taped in 1998 and '99 (around the time of the company's acquisition by AOL) at Netscape's offices in Mountain View, Cal. The task, says narrator Jim Pappademas, is ?a precarious balance of science and art.? And energy helps. As one staffer puts it, he and his colleagues ?don't need food and don't need sleep.? But, he adds wryly, ?they'll take pay.? Rating: TV-G Category: Other, documentary Release Year: 2000 Date Time Channel Thu 30 10:00 PM PBS PBS Good it will not interfere with my star trek (11)
Are we going to need a xss or xsl with the XML diplay on the new comunicater.
AS once asked of me in one of my accounting classes.
"If you bought the hienz company and you had to pay extra for the name -- would you do so?"
The teacher said that the anser is yes because it is a name that people will buy. Names are one of the most valuable assets in bussness, so what is a name worth... well about 5 to 10 times the price of the company alone.
We would need a less geeky name (yes I know we all love slashdot, or segfault, I love to see the GNU party) but if we were to even remotly hope for any public support we would need a name for the party that would get evey our dads in on it, lets "People for a free America" that would work, it has the words Joe Idiot would beable to understand and then once we get the support of the average person we can try to spoon feed them the issues, the average american know nothing about technologhy or of polotics, heck we the geek have enoph trouble with polotics, take for instance what I learned in my Poly Sci class last term.
Our goverment (that of the US, sorry to discrimate agains those of you who are outside of the US) is set up so that it moves sloly on the issues, it forces poloticions to "log roll" (i.e. you skratch my back I scratch yours) and to cut dealts. The professor said that the ideas in the founding fathers heads were not realy to give the power to the people compleatly but to filter it, so that here is what they thought of. The people will electe a group of electors, and that the electors would pick the leaders, (i.e. vote for the voters) We still see this today in the presidental elections, you don't vote for the president you just vote for people who have pleaged to vote for that person (they can always turn around and vote for some one else, but he said that that is very unlikly to happen since the partys pick very faithful people to the party) also he showed how the system is desinde to whast votes, all a canidates electors need to get the state is one more vote then the others, and it is as if every one in the state voted for that one, the other votes are ignored because if you carry a state you get all of the electors for that state, and each state has a diffent number of electors based on the population,(i.e. CA is more inportant than RI)
Since we are on the subject of Linux jobs, I was wondering if those of you who have gone before use who are still in collage could tell us what you think should go on a resume. I am being told to put the following on: Courses taken, education(what collage and greaduation date [expected]) work experience, computing experience, interests and activities, awards and places that I have been (i.e other countrys). Also I have put on programs that I have writen and were they are loacated. My question is, is that to much, what will a propective Linux job oppotunity be looking at. anything that would be needed. I am no thinking about this stuff now that I am in my 3rd year of collage and expect to be graduating next year, I am looking at a BS in CS.
I think that yes the security of the Linux box will keep 75%+ of the Linux box safe (the other 25%+ are the people who do everything for root, this might be a exaduation) but the real danger is to the users accounts, not all of them only one at a time. because if you do get a virus all it can do is delete files that belong to the user and that the user have sufficiant rights to, other wise you will get a error, this will also help to id the virus and so that the "victim"/discover of the virus can let other people know about it.
Just my stupid rambilings
yes,yes,yes,yes,sometimes,no,no,hell yes
I guess I am a homisital mainiac, who whats to be the frist to die, (place eval laugh here)